bonanza

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Even before DeChristopher subverted the proceedings, the Dec. 19 auction sized up as one of the most controversial during the Bush administration, whose policies critics have characterized as a bonanza for oil and gas extraction on public land.

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  1. noun A rich mine, vein, or pocket of ore.
  2. noun A source of great wealth or prosperity.

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  • How will that be possible with so much emphasis now being placed on Allen Stanford's Twenty20 bonanza, and where are the incentives to prevent talented young players from taking the easier route to considerably more money at the expense of the longer form of the game, the traditional version that develops the very qualities the CEO hopes to see more of among the current crop of West Indies batsmen. —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
  • One measure of the credit fuelled bonanza is the deterioration of the current account across the region. —  Safehaven
  • In the middle of an economic crisis and President Obama's federal spending bonanza, there will be fewer watchdogs to guard the shop.
  • Fox could have told Obama no, it will have to be some other date, since Thursday night is GOP convention coverage, but succumbed to the chance for a bonanza ratings night. —  American Thinker
  • High Tech High screens employees through a lengthy process -- called a bonanza -- that brings a crowd of applicants on campus to mingle with teachers and directors, tour classes, and teach sample classes to students who grade their work. —  NEWS updates from www.voiceofsandiego.org
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  1. Spanish, from Medieval Latin bonacia, calm sea, blend of Latin bonus, good; see deu-2 in Indo-European roots, and Medieval Latin malacia, calm sea (from Greek malakiā, from malakos, soft; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Spanish bonanza (= Portuguese bonança), fair weather at sea, prosperity, success (ir en bonanza, sail with fair wind and weather, go on prosperously) (cf. Italian bonaccia = Provencal bonassa, later F. bonace, a calm at sea), from Latin bonus (later Spanish bueno = Portuguese bom = Italian buono = French bon), good; cf. Old Spanish malina, stormy weather at sea, from Latin malus, bad.
 

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