wind·fall /ˈwɪn(d)ˌfɔl/
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Wind·fall n.
1. 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. “They became a windfall upon the sudden.”
2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain.
He had a mighty windfall out of doubt. --B. Jonson.
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windfall
n 1: fruit that has fallen from the tree
2: 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 lik an assembly line"
[syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend,
manna from heaven, bunce]