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Meaning of 'windfall' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Windfall [ n.]
- Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc.
- An unexpected legacy, or other gain.

Meaning of 'windfall' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . windfall [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
Example in sentence:
  • the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line

Nearby Words:

win wince winced wincer wincey winch wincing wincopipe wind wind-break

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