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godsend

god·send

UK/ˈɡɒdsɛnd/ US/ˈɡɑdˌsɛnd/ uncommon archaic uk

noun

1.

a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

  • “the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line”
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Origin

A variant of God’s send, from God + -’s + send (“(obsolete) act of sending”), in the sense of someone or something sent by God.

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