postbubble

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adjective

Occurring after the collapse of an economic bubble

OriginEnglish bubble ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste →
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Meanings

adjectivepostbubble (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring after the collapse of an economic bubble

    He said that he feared Silicon Valley would return "to the postbubble period where we saw a lot of acquisitions, but most of them were fire sales."

    2009 January 6, Claire Cain Miller, “Investors Strain to Sell Start-Up Companies”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishbubble
  8. Englishpostbubble

From post- + bubble.

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APA

postbubble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postbubble

MLA

“postbubble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postbubble. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postbubble,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postbubble.

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