1 something that suddenly produces large profits or great opportunities: --
3 a situation in which something good exists in large quantities: --
We heard that the petrol companies could put up their prices and that there was no restriction on the garages, which would enjoy a bonanza.
In the oil bonanza between now and the 1980s, about which we are talking, this should be foreseen.
While offshore oil can greatly help us, it is not a bonanza and it is not a panacea for all our economic maladies.
Will we be prevented from having our fair share of this bonanza off our shores?
One might say that speculators from the ticket office to the footplate are in for a real bonanza.
They recognise that the bonanza must stop at some time.
However, there is not to be a bonanza but meaningless participation.
We have been listening in this national debate to the discussion about the potential national bonanza beneath the sea.
