unearned increment
the increase in the value of property, especially land, due to natural causes, as growth of population, rather than to any labor or expenditure by the owner.
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How to use unearned increment in a sentence
That is why John Stuart Mill, the classical economist, referred to such increases in land value as “unearned increments.”
There’s a Way for the City to Balance Density With Quality of Life | Nico Calavita and Brian J. Curry | December 15, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoIf any one else gets money in this way they call it an unearned increment.
Treading the Narrow Way | R. E. BarrettThis unearned increment of reputation, compounded annually, is all that keeps some ancient authors alive nowadays.
Major Prophets of To-Day | Edwin E. SlossonApart from the matter of unearned increment, however, he always followed his hunches; but this one he did not like at all.
Subspace Survivors | E. E. SmithThe "unearned increment" should accrue to the whole community and not to a few landowners.
Twentieth Century Socialism | Edmond Kelly
We had both been working very hard, and it was your unearned increment we spent, and as you're only a loafer it didn't matter.'
The Light That Failed | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for unearned increment
a rise in the market value of landed property resulting from general economic factors
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