windfall

«windfall» in Mova's school dictionary: An amount of money you get unexpectedly, such as a prize… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a windfall, windfalls)

meaning for a pupil

1) An amount of money you get unexpectedly, such as a prize, a gift or money you find. tree →

2) A fruit, especially an apple, that has been blown off a tree by the wind. tree →

3) A windfall can also be any lucky thing that happens unexpectedly, not only money. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and money lessons, a windfall is lucky, unplanned money: a big win, an unexpected gift from a relative. Sensible people may save part of a windfall. In gardens and orchards, windfalls are apples lying on the ground; they are often used for cooking or juice. Phrases: "a windfall of", "an unexpected windfall".

examples

• Finding a £10 note in my old coat was a nice windfall. tree →
• The school got a windfall when a parent gave £1,000. tree →
• We collected windfalls under the apple tree to make a crumble. tree →
• Nan said I should save half of my birthday windfall. tree →
• Some windfalls were bruised, so we fed them to the horse. tree →
• The village used the windfall to fix the playground. tree →

note

Countable: a windfall, windfalls. One word. A windfall is not something you earned or planned. In money problems, adding a windfall increases your total savings once; it is not a regular income.

In the corpora

• A windfall is money you did not expect, like a gift from Gran.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «windfall» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.