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booms and busts

booms and busts is the plural of boom and bust.

Meaning of boom and bust

Noun

boom and bust (plural booms and busts)

  1. A pattern of high prices in a given market or in the entire economy followed by ruinously low prices, falling production, and bankruptcies by producers; prosperity followed by recession.
    • The reason such comments provoke scepticism is because Brown's mantra during his 10 years at the Treasury was that his prudence as chancellor of the exchequer would ensure there would never be a return to “boom and bust” economics.2008 September 11, Deborah Summers, “‘No return to boom and bust’: what Brown said when he was chancellor”, in The Guardian

Questions about booms and busts

What is booms and busts the plural of?
Booms and busts is the plural of boom and bust.

Words near booms and busts in the dictionary

  1. boomlike
  2. boomorah
  3. boompipe
  4. boompipes
  5. booms
  6. booms and busts
  7. booms off
  8. boomsayer
  9. boomsayers
  10. Boomses
  11. boomshakalaka

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