invisible earnings

invisible earnings definition - finance
A phrase that is commonly used in the United Kingdom to mean earnings from services, which are “invisible,” in contrast to physical goods or manufactured products that are “visible.”

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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