unearned
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- a not gained by merit or labor or service
accepted the unearned rewards that came his ways as well as the unearned criticism
unearned income
an unearned run
- Says Lawrence Lindsey, assistant professor of economics at Harvard: "A middle-class person is someone who expects to be self-reliant, unlike the upper class with its unearned .
- At 27, he was ready to put the lessons of hard experience to good use and had little respect for authority he deemed inept or unearned.
- Most tax forms refer to interest from savings as "unearned income.