"passive income" meaning in English

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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 January 25, Penelope Green, “Barons Before Bedtime”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-27",
          "text": "Players win when they get out of the rat race (salaried jobs) by amassing passive income (investments in real estate or the stock market).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 April 7, Matthew Caminiti, Paul Hughes, “Taxes 101: A Comparative Perspective”, in Businessweek, retrieved 2015-08-27",
          "text": "Passive income, or profits earned from so-called intangible sources such as interest, is taxed in the U.S. as it is earned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 July 30, Dale Anderson, Jeremy Solis, “Expert insights: is the UK a property safe haven?”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2015-08-27",
          "text": "Investing in a fully managed asset will provide a passive income and will ensure that you are not stuck with finding tenants, repairs and maintenance costs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An income that is made using little to no effort, such as pension income, rent, or interest, as opposed to normal employment."
      ],
      "id": "en-passive_income-en-noun-2OhTS3b9",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "pension",
          "pension"
        ],
        [
          "rent",
          "rent"
        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest"
        ],
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) An income that is made using little to no effort, such as pension income, rent, or interest, as opposed to normal employment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "regular monetary income",
          "word": "被動收入"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "bèidòng shōurù",
          "sense": "regular monetary income",
          "word": "被动收入"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "regular monetary income",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "passief inkomen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "regular monetary income",
          "word": "passiivitulo"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "regular monetary income",
          "word": "passiivinen tulo"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "passive income"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "passive income"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "passive incomes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English multiword terms",
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        "English uncountable nouns",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 January 25, Penelope Green, “Barons Before Bedtime”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-27",
          "text": "Players win when they get out of the rat race (salaried jobs) by amassing passive income (investments in real estate or the stock market).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 April 7, Matthew Caminiti, Paul Hughes, “Taxes 101: A Comparative Perspective”, in Businessweek, retrieved 2015-08-27",
          "text": "Passive income, or profits earned from so-called intangible sources such as interest, is taxed in the U.S. as it is earned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 July 30, Dale Anderson, Jeremy Solis, “Expert insights: is the UK a property safe haven?”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2015-08-27",
          "text": "Investing in a fully managed asset will provide a passive income and will ensure that you are not stuck with finding tenants, repairs and maintenance costs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An income that is made using little to no effort, such as pension income, rent, or interest, as opposed to normal employment."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "pension",
          "pension"
        ],
        [
          "rent",
          "rent"
        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest"
        ],
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) An income that is made using little to no effort, such as pension income, rent, or interest, as opposed to normal employment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "passive income"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "regular monetary income",
      "word": "被動收入"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bèidòng shōurù",
      "sense": "regular monetary income",
      "word": "被动收入"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "regular monetary income",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "passief inkomen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "regular monetary income",
      "word": "passiivitulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "regular monetary income",
      "word": "passiivinen tulo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "passive income"
}