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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for windfall

fruit that has fallen from the tree

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

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Susan Bradley, the author of Sudden Money: Managing a Financial Windfall, says that one challenge of newfound wealth is dealing with all the emotional issues surrounding money--including other people's unrealistic expectations.
The Treasury will no doubt await the vast profits the oil companies will soon report, and then slap on a windfall tax.
Basically, the utilities would be using emissions trading as an excuse to make a windfall profit.
The windfalls didn't affect kids' anxiety and depression.
The windfall was announced yesterday, when a rival company offered to buy the shares as part of a takeover deal at 30% above the market value.
Moreover, in assessing the fiscal effect the government should not include any windfall revenue collected under Regulation 105 to which it is not otherwise entitled.
HUNDREDS of Scottish Widows policy-holders have been asked to hand back windfall payments made by mistake.
The court held that the Tenth Circuit's analysis was not supported by the plain text of the statute; rather, the district court indicated that the Tenth Circuit purposely interpreted the statute to avoid a windfall for the taxpayers.
WINDFALL shares were once the high-fliers of the stock market, giving instant profits to millions.
In common usage, a windfall is a "casual or unexpected acquisition or advantage," or an "unexpectedly large or unforseen profit."(2) A rare discussion in the legal literature did not stray far from the dictionary, defining a windfall as "value which is received by a person unexpectedly as a result of good fortune rather than as a result of effort, intelligence, or the venturing of capital."(3) This definition, however, adds critical economic content to the term: It distinguishes gains due to luck from those due to effort or enterprise.
Windfall Data Inc has announced it raised USD 9 million in a venture funding round led by Bullpen Capital with Bonfire Ventures, Industry Ventures, TenOneTen Ventures, and ValueStream Ventures participating, the company said.
ENPNewswire-August 27, 2019--Durango Updates Shareholders on Windfall Property near Osisko
Government will thoroughly investigate logging under the cover of legal loophole known as windfall policy, he said talking to The Express Tribune.
ISLAMABAD -- Accountant General Pakistan Revenue (AGPR) Wednesday informed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)'s sub-committee that energy ministry had dented national exchequer by Rs20.39 billion avoiding the clause of windfall levy in the contract with an international oil and gas company.