dollar decade
dollar decade noun: the 1920s in the United States, marked by rapid economic expansion.
Noun (1)
the dollar decade (uncountable)
- The 1920s in the United States, marked by rapid economic expansion.
- Near-synonyms: Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties
- Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast.2014, Melissa Walker, James C. Cobb, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, →ISBN
Noun (2) capitalized: Dollar Decade
the Dollar Decade (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of dollar decade.
Forms of dollar decade
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Origin of dollar decade
Popularized by political scientist James Warren Prothro in his book The Dollar Decade: Business Ideas in the 1920's (1954).
Questions about dollar decade
- What does dollar decade mean?
- Dollar decade means the 1920s in the United States, marked by rapid economic expansion.
- What part of speech is dollar decade?
- Dollar decade is a noun.
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