windfallnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈwɪnd.fɔːl/us/ˈwɪnd.fɑːl/windfall noun [ C ] (MONEY)
an amount of money that you win or receive from someone unexpectedly:
Investors each received a windfall of £3,000.
UK The government is hoping to collect a windfall tax (= extra tax on a large unexpected company profit) from British Electric.
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Amounts of money
- ante
- balance
- bank
- blood money
- bounty
- buck
- budget
- capital
- circumstance
- daily bread
- float
- have/get your snout in the trough idiom
- living wage
- money supply
- nut
- payout
- pool
- slush fund
- sub
- trough
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windfall noun [ C ] (FRUIT)
a piece of fruit blown down from a tree:
I tend to leave the windfalls for the birds to pick at.
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Fruits & seeds & their parts
- acorn
- berry
- chaff
- cocoa bean
- coffee bean
- endosperm
- fruiterer
- grain
- husk
- mielie
- nut
- pine cone
- pine nut
- pit
- pith
- seeded
- sesame seed
- stalk
- thistledown
- zest
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