Usually means: Increase in value without effort.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. unearned increment: Merriam-Webster
  2. unearned increment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unearned increment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unearned increment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unearned increment: Vocabulary.com
  6. unearned increment: Wordnik
  7. unearned increment: Wiktionary
  8. unearned increment: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. unearned increment: Dictionary.com
  10. Unearned increment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. unearned increment: Rhymezone
  12. unearned increment: FreeDictionary.org
  13. unearned increment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. unearned increment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. unearned increment: Legal dictionary
  3. unearned increment: Financial dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unearned increment)

▸ noun:  Any exceptional increase in the value of land, houses, etc., not due to the owner's labour or outlay.

Similar:
overage, undue enrichment, apanage, equality money, seignorage, dereliction, land tax, advancement, land, augmentation, more...

Opposite:
depreciation, loss, devaluation, deflation, decline

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Similar:
overage, undue enrichment, apanage, equality money, seignorage, dereliction, land tax, advancement, land, augmentation, more...

Opposite:
depreciation, loss, devaluation, deflation, decline



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