Windfall
WordNet

noun


(1)   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"
(2)   Fruit that has fallen from the tree
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Noun



  1. Something that has been blown down by the wind.
  2. A fruit that has fallen from a tree naturally, as from wind
    They couldn't reach the branches, so they ate the windfalls.
  3. a sudden large benefit; especially an influx of money
    • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
      Businessmen rushed to get every last commodity aboard a departing ship, hoping for a windfall once the world realized these would be the very last sacks of flour available, thus driving up prices.
 
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