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Windfall

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Noun

1. windfall

fruit that has fallen from the tree

2. bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall

a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

Example Sentences:
'the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Windfall

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noun
1. 
a piece of unexpected good fortune, esp financial gain
2. 
something blown down by the wind, esp a piece of fruit
3. mainly US and Canadian
a plot of land covered with trees blown down by the wind

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Windfall

see synonyms of windfall
noun
1. 
something blown down by the wind, as fruit from a tree
2. 
any unexpected acquisition, gain, or stroke of good luck

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Windfall

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n.
1. A sudden, unexpected piece of good fortune or financial gain.
2. Something, such as a ripened fruit, that has been blown down by the wind.
adj.
Of or relating to a windfall: windfall profits.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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