boom-bust

A form of boom-and-bust — Featuring or characterized by a boom and bust cycle in a market or an economy, in which rapid price increase is followed by falling prices or recession.

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Meanings

nounboom-bust (plural boom-busts)

plural boom-busts

  1. abbreviationcontractionContraction of boom-and-bust.

    That sums up California’s tax structure. It sums up the boom-bust.

    2023 April 11, Kurtis Lee, quoting Gavin Newsom, “California Economy Is on Edge After Tech Layoffs and Studio Cutbacks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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    Only three countries had boom–busts in both stock prices and property prices, Finland, Italy, and Japan.

    2004, Richard C. K. Burdekin, Pierre L. Siklos, editors, Deflation: Current and Historical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 145
adjectiveboom-bust (comparative more boom-bust, superlative most boom-bust)

comparative more boom-bust · superlative most boom-bust

  1. abbreviationcontractionContraction of boom-and-bust.

    boom-bust cycle

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Chicago

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