Usually means: Unexpected financial gain or profit.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. windfall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. windfall: Merriam-Webster
  3. windfall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. windfall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. windfall: Collins English Dictionary
  6. windfall: Vocabulary.com
  7. Windfall, windfall: Wordnik
  8. windfall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. windfall: Wiktionary
  10. windfall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. windfall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. windfall: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. windfall: Dictionary.com
  14. windfall: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. windfall: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Windfall (Joe Pug Album), Windfall (Rick Nelson album), Windfall (TV series), Windfall (novel), Windfall (sculpture), Windfall (upcoming film), Windfall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Windfall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. windfall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. windfall: Rhymezone
  20. Windfall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. windfall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Windfall: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. windfall: FreeDictionary.org
  24. windfall: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. windfall: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. windfall: Legal dictionary
  3. windfall: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. windfall: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. windfall: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WINDFALL: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY

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noun:  Something that has been blown down by the wind.
noun:  A fruit that has fallen from a tree naturally, as from wind.
noun:  (figuratively) A sudden large benefit; especially, a sudden or unexpected large amount of money, as from lottery or sweepstakes winnings or an unexpected inheritance or gift.

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