unearned increment

1. 1.

   an unearned rise in the market value of property resulting from general market factors

   Broaderfinancial gain

Questions about unearned increment

What does unearned increment mean?

unearned increment means "an unearned rise in the market value of property resulting from general market factors".

Is unearned increment a common word?

unearned increment 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.