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windfall

noun as in jackpot, profit

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The president has long touted trade deals and foreign investment agreements as economic windfalls that fuel the stock market and help average Americans.

Those windfall profits were partly the result of high inflation, but Ofgem said that renegotiating price controls would bring extra costs to consumers that would outweigh the benefits.

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Unadjusted brackets have also increased the state’s windfall from soaring capital gains, which the state taxes at the same rate as wage income.

This is partially because large windfalls of cash don’t usually figure into typical budgeting advice.

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The windfall from the expanded break will be concentrated in blue states that tend to have higher incomes and taxes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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