What's the difference between earned and unearned?
Earned
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Earn
Example Sentences:
(1) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(2) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(3) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(4) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(5) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(6) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(7) Office of National Statistics figures published in November last year showed that men earn 9.4% more than women, the lowest gender gap since records began in 1997.
(8) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(9) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(10) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(11) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
(12) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(13) A woman with a one-year-old and seven-year-old who earns £17,513 after tax will have £120 left if she does pay for childcare, If she does not have to meet childcare costs, she will have £1,118.
(14) But he lost much of his earnings betting on cards and horses, and he has readily admitted that it was losses of up to £750,000 a night that compelled him to make some of his worst films.
(15) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
(16) At present, workers in the UK can earn £8,105 a year before they start paying tax – equivalent to £675 a month.
(17) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
(18) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(19) Trade unions criticised the corporation’s 1% offer, tied to a minimum of just £390, for those staff earning under £50,000, calling it “completely unacceptable” .
(20) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .
Unearned
Definition:
(a.) Not earned; not gained by labor or service.
Example Sentences:
(1) My generation, buying homes in the 1970s, has seen the value of property soar above inflation every year: unearned, untaxed wealth caused by scarcity from failure to build.
(2) Updated at 9.38pm BST 9.35pm BST Rays 2 - Red Sox 2, bottom of the 4th Matt Moore is on the hook for both of those runs, just in case anyone doesn't believe that the rules for earned and unearned runs are dumb.
(3) This is now, when house prices are spiralling out of the reach of ordinary households, benefitting the few as their unearned asset rises in value while the wages of the many stagnate.
(4) New progressives want to reshape the tax base fundamentally, towards greater taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than of people.
(5) There are many old people sitting on mountainous property wealth generated by multiple bubbles, an unearned bonanza that has never been taxed.
(6) Hunt adds: “However, I should be clear that, whilst there may well be some within our party who see equality as an end in and of itself, I am not one of them … The fundamental task of progressive politics remains to ensure the opportunities enjoyed by the powerful are spread to the powerless.” Hunt, who will call for a new focus by Labour on taxing unearned wealth, including an annual tax on property values levied on owners to replace the “unfair and outdated” council tax, will also say that both New Labour and Ed Miliband’s Labour failed to make an effective case against inequality.
(7) Michael Gove surprised his audience at a conference fringe meeting last month with the declaration that Conservatives should talk more about the “undeserving rich” , whose insulation from risk by unearned reward was discrediting the case for free market capitalism.
(8) This allows people with a residency to legally avoid paying state income tax on so-called “unearned” income, such as dividends, interests and retirement benefits.
(9) The new tax would be a charge of 15% on unearned income and income from investment, he said, only applying to those paying the additional rate of tax for earnings of £150,000 a year or more.
(10) Yes is the answer, the Boston Red Sox , who capitalized on St Louis' mistakes to the tune of three unearned runs, even if they only needed two for the win, thanks to the animal in John Lester, who was lights out...again They would up with eight, a tremendous sign for Sox bats that were in a serious slump despite reaching the Fall Classic.
(11) Women face very real barriers, men are given very real unearned benefits, and these are collective social problems.
(12) Those who subscribe to such a view also deem income from benefits as somehow "unearned", yet there is very little "unearned" about it.
(13) Two other remuneration reports have also been defeated this year, at housebuilder Bellway, where investors objected to an unearned bonus, and at Provident Financial, where there was a 51% protest vote against a 20% pay rise for Peter Crook, the Provident Financial chief executive.
(14) By contrast, new progressives want to reform the tax base fundamentally, towards taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than people."
(15) Both the Lib Dem leader and business secretary, Vince Cable , signalled on Saturday that the party would only entertain the abolition of the top rate in the long run if it was not raising much revenue and if it was replaced by new taxes on "unearned income".
(16) By contrast, new progressives want to reform the tax base fundamentally, towards taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than people.
(17) Given these are but a few of the unearned advantages of being a white woman, they might just want to listen to their sisters about their economic, social and literal states of death as much as they demand - and maybe buy them a cup of coffee before they beat them to the pearly gates.
(18) Like that of Wallace and Thatcher, his "middle" comprises the "productive" members of society opposed to the "unproductive", the parasites living on "unearned" income.
(19) A mansion tax – a levy on rich homes – is thus eminently justifiable, as is a tax on unearned increases in land value.
(20) But the phrase stuck as Labour presided over a top rate of income tax of 83p in the pound, with an additional 15p tax on unearned income.