(n.) In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(2) Companies fail to do so at present because the world is in the midst of a shale gas bonanza, and most gas companies are focused on finding new sources of supply.
(3) Speaking a few days before the last major financial event of the coalition government, Cable said: “This budget, I think there is a common agreement across the coalition, cannot be some kind of pre-election bonanza because that would completely undermine credibility.” He made clear that the Lib Dems have worked hard to ensure that Osborne will deliver a budget on behalf of the whole coalition.
(4) Ben Altman Spencer, New York, USA • We believe the energy industry has been misrepresented in your article ( Big firms' gas bonanza threatens green energy , 21 April), which claims energy companies are lobbying governments and business to reject renewables in favour of natural gas.
(5) Chief executive John Walden said retailers have learned their lesson from last year’s Black Friday sales bonanza, which wreaked havoc on the high street and hit shops’ profits in the run-up to Christmas.
(6) The far-reaching scheme would also strengthen the power of Brussels against national energy regulators; boost consumer choice transnationally when buying electricity services; generate a bonanza in energy infrastructure investment; and integrate supply systems regionally and on an EU-wide scale.
(7) West Ham United Accounts of WH Holding Ltd for the year to 31 May 2015 • Ownership David Sullivan 51.1%; David Gold 35.1%; CB Holding ehf 10% • Turnover 9th highest in League £121m , up from £115m in 2014 • Income Match income and football related £20m; Commercial £15m; Premier League & broadcasting £79m; Retail & merchandising £7m • Wage bill Joint 12th highest in League £73m , up from £64m in 2014 • Wages as proportion of turnover 60% • Profit before tax £3m , following £10m profit in 2014 • Net debt £67m • Interest payable £6m • Highest-paid director Unnamed, £646,000 (Karren Brady is the executive vice-chairman) State they are in: The figures for West Ham’s occupation of the £701m, 60,000-seat Olympic stadium , disclosed after dogged persistence by Freedom of Information campaigners supporting other clubs, have confirmed it as the greatest public money bonanza ever bestowed on a football club.
(8) With League clubs permitted to make losses of £8m without sanction, the question is not so much whether QPR will pay a penalty but what percentage of their £80m bonanza will be lost.
(9) The role of shale gas in this bonanza has been overlooked by supporters of the controversial fuel.
(10) Labour has stepped up demands for the government to pull the plug on the privatisation before applications for shares close on Tuesday evening, warning that taxpayers will be shortchanged in a "bonanza for City speculators".
(11) And it's Christmas bonanza time along the high streets of Britain, where Oxfam outlets and estate agents lie lonely amid empty sites and desolate closed doors.
(12) Pearson's pre-tax profit bonanza was partly boosted by the £412m profit on the £428m sale of its 50% stake in FTSE International to the London Stock Exchange last year.
(13) Fracking could trigger a £33bn investment bonanza and create 64,000 jobs, promises a new report for the shale industry released on Thursday and part-funded by government.
(14) As gas power has replaced coal in the US, the excess coal has pushed down prices on world markets, sparking a bonanza for the high-carbon fuel.
(15) We get a bonanza of jobs and increasing energy security: CO2 reduction with immediate and lasting benefit.
(16) In a radically different take on the annual ads bonanza, Sainsbury's will devote a number of its pre-Christmas TV spots to clips from a new documentary created by The Last King of Scotland and Marley director Kevin Macdonald.
(17) There are many old people sitting on mountainous property wealth generated by multiple bubbles, an unearned bonanza that has never been taxed.
(18) Yesterday's report from the Centre for Economic Performance showed how bonanza bonuses in the finance sector cause risk-taking that contributed to the financial crisis.
(19) Outsourcing firms are preparing for a bonanza of local authority contracts to provide everything from bin men to back office bureaucrats and have reported a doubling in the number of deals on offer this year.
(20) Leicester city and Leicestershire county council are hoping for a Plantaganet tourism bonanza once the new visitor centre opens on 26 July, 100 yards from the cathedral and overlooking the site of his original resting place, the site of the demolished Grey Friars church.
Windfall
Definition:
(n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc.
(n.) An unexpected legacy, or other gain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(2) The windfalls - which it declined to disclose - for its founders may not quite match the sums paid to the creators of YouTube and MySpace but the $280m deal is a welcome pay off for a project that started out from one room in Whitechapel, east London .
(3) ‘You help us and we’ll take care of you’: a windfall of abuse hits minorities in the Windy City – and Lee Harris Facebook Twitter Pinterest The notoriously abusive Chicago police officer Jon Burge (top) was released on Friday.
(4) Inattention to pricing policies can lead to increased total costs, windfall profits for some providers, and the loss of comprehensive coverage for high-risk individuals.
(5) More than a third of an £8.4m loan taken out of BHS by its new owners in March last year went to four directors who were part of the consortium, handing them a multimillion-pound windfall just days after buying the struggling department store chain.
(6) By Friday the viral trend had transformed into a fundraising phenomenon, generating a £2m windfall for Cancer Research UK.
(7) "Qatar has windfall revenues from exporting gas and the local economy is small enough for the government to be able to take its excess cash and put it overseas."
(8) Gordon Brown used the £20bn windfall from the much more lucrative sale of the 3G spectrum in 2003 exclusively to reduce debt.
(9) Investments Lump sum investing is often the chosen route for people who have larger amounts of money to invest and conviction that the time is right to do so, to those who have a bonus paid to them at a certain time of year, or to families receiving a sudden windfall.
(10) This excess represents a windfall that can be used to pay for travel, equipment, or supplies, or to fund research for which the investigator cannot obtain funding through peer-reviewed granting channels.
(11) The IFS's number crunching revealed that the overall impact of Wednesday's budget - in which a headline-grabbing petrol duty cut was paid for by a windfall tax on North Sea oil companies - would be minimal.
(12) Lee Hopley, chief economist at manufacturers' organisation the EEF, says the government has to give UK makers as much guidance as possible on upcoming procurement deals, because sizeable orders could create export windfalls.
(13) The next generation won’t have access to such a windfall.
(14) George Osborne has been handed a £1.1bn windfall for next month’s pre-election autumn statement after the City regulator imposed record fines on five major banks for rigging the foreign currency markets.
(15) Business may whinge about legislation, and lobby furiously against it, but in the end - as in the case of Labour's windfall tax - they tend to submit when faced with determined legislators, especially when backed by public opinion.
(16) A quality-enhancing bidding process can be used to redistribute any unfair windfall profits, and foster quality care, effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity.
(17) The family that turned a Harrow taxi firm into a postal company competing with the Royal Mail are in line for a £120m windfall after an agreed bid from Deutsche Post.
(18) Ocado is aiming for a valuation of up to £1.1bn in a flotation that will also see its investment bank advisers and lawyers receive a £15m windfall in fees.
(19) The deal will deliver an estimated £176m windfall for Hayward and his fellow backers of Vallares, including Nat Rothschild.
(20) The case for a windfall tax on bonuses is as simple as that.