Čo znamená windfall v angličtine a aká je definícia windfall?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť windfall výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

windfall Význam & definícia

0 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.
1 a piece of fruit blown down from a tree:
- I tend to leave the windfalls for the birds to pick at.
2 an amount of money that you receive unexpectedly:
- The Belridge School, after receiving a financial windfall, purchased computers for all students and teachers.
3 an amount of money that you receive unexpectedly:
- get/have/receive a windfall Investors each received a windfall of $5,000.
- cash/financial/tax windfall The investment firm unveiled a cash windfall for shareholders worth up to $650m.
- windfall gains/profits Staff stood to make substantial windfall gains from share options.

On this transect, there is a disturbed forest from 420 m to 510 m probably resulting from ancient windfalls.
A longitudinal study using data on windfalls.
They should have encouraged savings, especially in the light of the huge windfalls that consumers were receiving from building societies and insurance companies following flotations.
Windfalls have not been spent on consumption as in past years; they have also been used to reduce debt and for investments.
I go further and say that it is necessary to tax such windfalls.
I have had certain windfalls which have helped me.
There is the consideration attaching to the ownership of land; there are the windfalls which have come to be associated with the ownership of land.
He said that it was used for the purpose of asserting that fortuitous windfalls were a legitimate subject for taxation.