| 词汇 | unearned |
| 释义 | unearned adjective uk /ʌnˈɜːnd/ us /ʌnˈɝːnd/ earned or obtained without having been worked for: 不劳而获的 unearned income不劳而获的收入 Earning money assessable bank base pay basic basic income disposable income hand over fistidiom in arrearsidiom line your pocket(s)idiom livelihood make an honest livingidiom performance-related pro bono pro rata profit from something prorate pull raise revenue sick pay Examples of unearnedunearned Unearned income is the reverse of the above. One can, to some extent, translate the above analysis of earned and unearned income into an evaluation of types of tax. States that have mineral wealth or other sources of ' unearned income ', never face the need to develop organisational skills. One can arrange revenue sources along a spectrum or scale from earned to unearned. The distinction that he makes is between earned and unearned state income. These figures imply the beginnings of urban manufacturing investment in land and also an increase in ' genteel ' lending to provide unearned income. As such, it was incapable of arbitrary discrimination - of conferring unearned privileges upon allies and favorites - the very definition of a corrupt and aristocratic government. More narrowly based indirect taxes, such as those on trade, are closer to the unearned extreme of the spectrum. This distinction between earned and unearned income would seem to be an important one. Often income earned from oil, minerals, and foreign aid are used as examples of the sources of unearned income. Income extracted in this way by the governing elite is likely to have more of an unearned character. This is true of unearned income. Large and 'unearned' bonus payments must be avoided if possible, even though such 'wasted' expenditures may still leave bonus systems economical on balance; otherwise political ridicule could prove disastrous. The housekeeping allowance of last week has suddenly become unearned income. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is indefensible at this time that established principles of taxation should be upset in favour of unearned income. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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