windfall
wind fawl
- n fruit that has fallen from the tree
- n a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- Continuing on Monday's windfall-profits-taxes-are-hard theme, here's Australian economist Andrew Leigh (via Mark Thoma): From an economic standpoint, the strongest argument for a .
- A windfall profits tax will produce less energy and not more.
- Under oil windfall profits, Russia's GDP should have grown by 15% to 16% in 2005.