windfall

How To Use windfall In A Sentence

• Some of you may get a windfall: property or a vehicle from parents or close relatives.
• The inequity of allowing windfall profits to be appropriated by private landholders can thus be demonstrated more clearly than in George's day.
• You could make a windfall profit - or you might suffer an exchange-rate loss if you encash those assets when the valuation currency is weak against your base currency.
• A windfall profits tax is exactly how it sounds; it is a higher tax rate on profits that ensue from a sudden windfall gain to a particular company. Ah, gerrymandering. | RedState
• (In fact, a 90 percent windfall profit tax on the bailout-created profits of the 19 largest banks would be the ideal way to promote a robust caulker jobs program.) Les Leopold: Clinton's Cash for Caulkers? Not enough Economic Insulation
• While Texas is a community property state, it seems to recognize the fact that anything more than a short term rehabilitative support order is a windfall. Fred Silberberg: Alimony Reform
• If the above seems to create an "unfair" windfall for stockholders or short term diminution of tax revenues, raise the capital gains rates. Al Checchi: Government's Travels
• The tax rebate is a Barmecidal windfall, coming as it does in the wake of new hidden taxes on consumer goods and services. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
• An annual windfall of up to £83m could be ring-fenced to create an improved business environment, through better roads, streetscapes, traffic control, and offering a better service for tourists.
• In fact, many Senators themselves are likely to reap enormous windfalls.