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windfall::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven |
| Type of | happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
windfall::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | edible fruit |
Examples of windfall
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The government is studying a possible increase in the windfall trigger, it said.
From the bloomberg.com
If the bad bank overpays, the selling banks get a windfall at taxpayers'expense.
From the businessweek.com
As this was not the case, the windfall would normally belong solely to the wife.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The difference is none of them are banking on a one-time windfall as the answer.
From the techcrunch.com
Wasn't this an extraordinary benefit, a windfall return on American citizenship?
From the theatlantic.com
An heiress will lose her pianist boyfriend if she keeps her $1 million windfall.
From the post-gazette.com
If you eliminate the tax breaks, you effectively eliminate the windfall profits.
From the time.com
Supporters argued that the agreement provides a financial windfall for the city.
From the sfgate.com
I have read that there is a possibility of a windfall for current policyholders.
From the independent.co.uk
- Fruit that has fallen from the tree
- Boom: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"
- Windfall is a 1935 British drama film adapted by Jack Celestin and Randall Faye from the R. C. Sherriff play of the same title. The film was directed by Frederick Hayward and George King with starring Edward Rigby and Marie Ault and George Carney.
- Windfall is a 1955 British comedy film written by John Gilling and directed by Henry Cass, starring Lionel Jeffries, Jack Watling and Gordon Jackson. Dad's Army star Arthur Lowe also makes a brief appearance in the film.
- Windfall is Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band's Country rock album from 1974.
- Windfall is a fictional character and reformed supervillain in the DC Comics universe. She first appeared in Batman and the Outsiders #9, written by Mike W. Barr and drawn by Jim Aparo.
- Windfall is a novel written by English author Desmond Bagley, and was first published in 1982.
- Windfall is a serial drama television series about a group of people in an unnamed small city who win almost $400 000 000 in a lottery. The series premiered Thursday, June 8, 2006 on NBC, taking the time slot occupied by ER during the rest of the year.
- (Windfalls) Any assets that come about during an IVA or bankruptcy will go towards repaying the debt.
