| 单词 | windfall profit |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswindfall profit windfall profit n. Economics unexpectedly large or unforeseen profit; similarly windfall gain, windfall loss, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [adjective] > large > specific unexpected windfall profit1936 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > [noun] > large or unexpected windfall loss1936 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > exceptionally large profit or gain > specific unexpected windfall profit1936 1936 J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment ii. vi. 57 The change in the value of the equipment, due to unforeseen changes in market values, exceptional obsolescence or destruction..may be called the windfall loss. 1936 J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment v. xx. 288 The windfall gain will wholly accrue to those entrepreneurs who happen to possess products at a relatively advanced stage of production. 1951 Sloan & Zurcher Dict. Econ. 266 Windfall profit, a profit in excess of that which can be considered normal. 1973 Times 21 Dec. 6/7 A proposal for Congress to impose ‘an emergency windfall profits tax’ on the oil companies. Although President Nixon himself told the American consumer..‘there will be no windfall profits at their expense’. 1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 May 31/4 The shift to free market pricing would give the oil companies windfall profits. < as lemmas |
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