windfall profit

1. 1.

   profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it

   Broadernet income

Questions about windfall profit

What does windfall profit mean?

windfall profit means "profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it".

Is windfall profit a common word?

windfall profit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.