tailwind

noun

tail·​wind ˈtāl-ˌwind 

plural tailwinds

1

: a wind having the same general direction as a course of movement (as of an aircraft)

2

: a force or influence that advances progress toward an improved condition

… the strengthening housing market should be providing tailwinds for home improvement retailers.

—Katherine Peralta

Medicare reform is a thorny problem even when the political tailwinds are favorable.

—Russ Wiles

Examples of tailwind in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The multi-year or even decade-long tailwind has to do with Cloudflare’s leadership in edge computing. —Stockstory Team, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025

These are natural secular tailwinds for financials. —Andy Mills, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2025

Trump faces a number of tailwinds and headwinds in his first month in office. —G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2025

Small and midsized companies are feeling good about the coming business environment, and that could be a tailwind for a seller of private jets, Textron CEO Scott Donnelly said. —Pete Gannon, Axios, 22 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

tail wind

noun

: a wind having the same general direction as the course of a moving object (as an aircraft)