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boom-and-bust

boom-and-bust adjective: 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.

Adjective

boom-and-bust (comparative more boom-and-bust, superlative most boom-and-bust)

  1. 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.
    • The continued boom‐and‐bust cycles in support of education and research constitute a costly waste of the nation's human resources.1973 October 15, “Boom‐and‐Bust Science”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Florida was one of the most boom-and-bust states for home prices in the 2000s. The median price of a home in the Orlando area, for example, doubled from around $125,000 in 2002 to around $250,000 in 2006, before dropping just as fast.2013 April 6, Matt Olberding, “Waverly business owner renting houses to Disney visitors”, in Lincoln Star Journal

Forms of boom-and-bust

comparativemore boom-and-bust
superlativemost boom-and-bust

Questions about boom-and-bust

What does boom-and-bust mean?
Boom-and-bust means 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.
What part of speech is boom-and-bust?
Boom-and-bust is an adjective.

Words near boom-and-bust in the dictionary

  1. boom sticks
  2. boom town
  3. boom towns
  4. boom vang
  5. boom vangs
  6. boom-and-bust
  7. boom-boom
  8. boom-boomed
  9. boom-booming
  10. boom-booms
  11. boom-bust

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