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 windfall ['windfɒ:l]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 被风吹落的果子, 横财

[经] 意外损失




    windfall
    [ noun ]
    1. fruit that has fallen from the tree

      2. <noun.food>
    2. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

      3. <noun.event>
      the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line


    Windfall \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.'' --Bacon.

    2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain.

    He had a mighty windfall out of doubt. --B. Jonson.

    1. The petroleum industry as a whole did not reap a third-quarter windfall from the Persian Gulf crisis, a leading trade group said in a defense of Big Oil against charges of profiteering.
    2. If Gillette were acquired at $40.50 a share, it would mean a windfall of nearly $200 million for Revlon.
    3. But some hardy adventure-seekers chuck conventional, long-term investment plans now and then to stalk the wild windfall.
    4. The actual total cost of the relief is estimated at around Pounds 50m. The suggestion of a windfall tax is by definition a one-off tax. It could not replace permanent annual loss of a flow of revenue.
    5. A windfall tax is a distinct possibility.
    6. Other features range from repeal of the 1980 windfall profits tax on oil industry earnings to substantial agricultural subsidy programs.
    7. Officials attributed the gain to higher natural gas prices, improved international crude oil prices and volumes, and a benefit for the reversal of excess prior years' windfall profit tax expense.
    8. The windfall from his brother's death on the battlefield has set up Thamir Mahmoud Murad for life.
    9. Japan's decision in 1986 to drop import restrictions on foreign cigarettes has proven a windfall for B.A.T and other Western tobacco companies.
    10. This windfall _ increasing Burger's salary by $60,000 to $175,000 a year, for example _ stems from a complex retirement system that allows federal judges to reduce their caseloads sharply while still qualifying for active-duty pay increases.
    11. The engineers who designed a temporary span on the Mianus River bridge on Interstate 95 are suddenly in demand, as are hundreds of structural engineers around the country who could reap a windfall from the San Francisco earthquake.
    12. Wall Street, which had made darlings of oil field companies in anticipation that Kuwaiti reconstruction would be a windfall, took the news hard.
    13. Mr. Premadasa's gungho attitude to business may have also produced a windfall: Entrepreneurial Tamil Muslims along the island's east coast, fence-sitters in the past on the issue of secession, now oppose it.
    14. In addition to providing drilling incentives, Congress should repeal the windfall profits tax, passed during the late 1970s when the oil industry was deregulated, while petroleum prices are down and do away with controls on natural gas, Bush said.
    15. The Social Democrats still want to be in a position to reap a political windfall, however, if Kohl's economic merger plans produce severely negative effects.
    16. But the reporting has been a windfall for some.
    17. The Finance Ministry said the windfall could hold Bonn's 1990 budget deficit to 30.9 billion marks, compared with an earlier projected 32.9 billion marks.
    18. Californians share a dream today of winning North America's largest lottery jackpot, about a $60 million windfall that triggered sales 10 times higher than usual.
    19. And here's where the potential windfall lies: Because the value residing in solvent mutuals does not belong to their depositors, it accrues by default to the benefit of the institutions' managements.
    20. He wants to use his state's revenue windfall to pay for dropping the top rate to 8% from 14%.
    21. Several analysts noted that the windfall is really an accounting gain that won't have any impact on the company's cash position.
    22. In 1980, after much of the Palace burnt down, it received a huge insurance windfall of more than Pounds 40m which could have transformed it into a major regional leisure attraction.
    23. There are only about three dozen hardcore firefighters, and they all stand to reap a Texas-sized windfall here in Ahmadi, a modest oil camp 30 miles south of Kuwait City.
    24. The Environmental Protection Agency wants the government to capture the expected windfall corporate profits that could reach $7 billion during future cuts in production of chemicals that destroy the Earth's protective ozone layer.
    25. In Australia, Mr. Holmes a Court's windfall on his Texaco share is likely to fuel speculation that the investor is preparing another raid on Broken Hill.
    26. The foundations, which are required by tax law to give away at least 5% of their assets, had large windfall profits in last year's booming stock market.
    27. Last autumn, Tepco was required by the government to cut its charges to offset windfall gains caused by the appreciation of the yen.
    28. "Basically, there's been a windfall due to the increase in price and the increase in demand as well," Patterson said.
    29. Although eventually denied, they made the crisis unstoppable. The September crisis produced massive windfall profits for many banks and financial institutions at the expense of the industrial world's central banks.
    30. Scores of other features range from repeal of the windfall profits tax on oil companies to billions of dollars in agricultural subsidies.
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