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Definition of Windfall
1. Noun. Fruit that has fallen from the tree.
2. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Happening, Natural Event, Occurrence, Occurrent
Definition of Windfall
1. 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.
2. 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.
Definition of Windfall
1. Noun. Something that has been blown down by the wind. ¹
2. Noun. A fruit that has fallen from a tree naturally, as from wind ¹
3. Noun. a sudden large benefit; especially an influx of money ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Windfall
1. a sudden and unexpected gain [n -S]
Medical Definition of Windfall
1. 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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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