Similar words: windfall, wind farm, profit, profits, non-profit, nonprofit, net profit, profit tax. Meaning: n. profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it.
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1. For a short-term gain of a one-off windfall profit, far greater future losses were stored up.
2. Mr. Lee expects a windfall profit from playing the stock market.
3. BARC.L) got a $8.2 billion "windfall profit" from excess assets it took control of in the fire sale of Lehman's U.S. brokerage business a year ago.
4. If the market offers you a windfall profit on a trade, lock it in!
5. Would the Minister find it acceptable if the same sort of windfall profits were made by the beneficiaries of the sell-offs?
6. Banking analyst Dick Bove of Rochedale Securities said in a note yesterday that buying some or all of MF Global might create "a windfall profit" for Goldman.
7. He was able to buy his second Wuling with a windfall profit he made when the government paid him compensation for some of his land it annexed to build a power plant.
8. My friend didn't care because every sale that they generated was pure windfall profit for my friend - and, of course, my friend also got 100%, of the back end.
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