unearned income

Questions about unearned income

What does unearned income mean?

unearned income means "personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for unearned income?

Close synonyms include unearned revenue, unearned revenue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unearned income a common word?

unearned income is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.