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earned income

noun

  1. income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.


earned income

noun

  1. income derived from paid employment and comprising mainly wages and salaries


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Word History and Origins

Origin of earned income1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

McConnell similarly talked out of both sides of his mouth on the minimum wage, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and other issues.

And people who qualify for the earned income-tax credit pretty much have to take it in an annual lump sum.

Of course, the Earned Income Tax Credit will get scored by the CBO as costing money, while a higher minimum wage won't.

Today's Earned Income Tax Credit is its successor, and it is available only to those already committed to work.

And in 1975, the year after Nixon resigned, Democrats and Republicans worked together to pass the first Earned Income Tax Credit.

Oh, but surely if we have to call ourselves Wurzel-Flummery it would count as earned income.

Exemptions from earned income tax are similar to those already mentioned in the case of Prussia.

But, speculative income should not be favored over earned income.

He may have put by a bit out of his hard-earned income, but, as I always say to him, he wants that against a rainy day.

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