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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
unearned
adj
  1. 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"
    Antonym(s): earned
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Unearned \Un*earned"\, a.
      Not earned; not gained by labor or service.
  
      {Unearned increment} (Polit. Econ.), a increase in the value
            of land due to no labor or expenditure on the part of the
            owner, but to natural causes, such as the increase of
            population, the growth of a town in the vicinity, or the
            like. Some hold that this should belong to the nation.
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