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 wind·fall /ˈwɪn(d)ˌfɔl/
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 Wind·fall n.
 1. Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc.  “They became a windfall upon the sudden.”
 2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain.
    He had a mighty windfall out of doubt.   --B. Jonson.
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 windfall
      n 1: fruit that has fallen from the tree
      2: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden
         opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has
         created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where
         boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line"
         [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend,
         manna from heaven, bunce]