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boom-bust

boom-bust is the contraction of boom-and-bust.

Meaning of boom-and-bust

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

Forms of boom-bust

Noun
pluralboom-busts
Adjective
comparativemore boom-bust
superlativemost boom-bust

Questions about boom-bust

What is boom-bust the contraction of?
Boom-bust is the contraction of boom-and-bust.

Words near boom-bust in the dictionary

  1. boom-and-bust
  2. boom-boom
  3. boom-boomed
  4. boom-booming
  5. boom-booms
  6. boom-bust
  7. boom-busts
  8. boom-house
  9. boom-houses
  10. boomable
  11. boomage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boom-bust (page history and authors); boom-and-bust (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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