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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/#m1)

2) A fruit, especially an apple, that has been blown off a tree by the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/#m2)

3) A windfall can also be any lucky thing that happens unexpectedly, not only money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/#x1)
- The school got a windfall when a parent gave £1,000. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/#x2)
- We collected windfalls under the apple tree to make a crumble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/#x3)
- Nan said I should save half of my birthday windfall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/#x4)
- Some windfalls were bruised, so we fed them to the horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/#x5)
- The village used the windfall to fix the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «windfall» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windfall/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.