📚 Windfall, noun.
🔉 /ˈwɪn(d)fɔːl/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: A large amount of money that is won or received unexpectedly.
❗️ Examples:
1. Members are to get an average £520 cash windfall for voting ‘yes’ to the merger.
2. In so doing, they will reap windfall profits from a property redevelopment scheme.
3. A struggling cricket club has been given a new lease of life following an unexpected cash windfall.
4. Striding ahead of the rest has landed a Lancaster theatre with a huge cash windfall.
5. One thing for certain: this unexpected financial windfall will most definitely not be a handicap to the club.
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