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    A windfall is a crazy bit of unexpected good fortune. The word eventually came to mean any unexpected and easily-gained good fortune, typically one involving money, such as the windfall profit from a lucky stock purchase.

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    Money is not inherently good or bad. And regardless of how it strikes you, neither is your windfall. Effective planning can help to ensure that your windfall serves as a blessing and not a curse.

    Also Know, how do you use windfall in a sentence? ?

    1. With her lottery windfall, Gail eliminated all her financial debt.
    2. Hopefully my accountant will help me get a windfall when he completes my tax paperwork.
    3. On Wills eighteenth birthday he will receive a cash windfall as part of his inheritance.

    In this regard, what is considered a financial windfall?

    Windfall. A sudden, unexpected profit or gain. A windfall may occur, for example, after a company announces an earnings surprise and its stock consequently jumps significantly. See also: Windfall shares, Windfall tax.

    What is the opposite of windfall?

    There is no precise antonym for windfall, either in its original meaning of a fruit, especially an apple, that the wind has blown down from the tree (OALD), or in its metaphorical meaning of an amount of money that sb/sth wins or receives unexpectedly. (OALD).

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