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postbubble

postbubble adjective: occurring after the collapse of an economic bubble.

Adjective

postbubble (not comparable)

  1. Occurring 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 of postbubble

From post- + bubble.

Questions about postbubble

What does postbubble mean?
Postbubble means occurring after the collapse of an economic bubble.
What part of speech is postbubble?
Postbubble is an adjective.

Words near postbubble in the dictionary

  1. postbroadcast
  2. postbronchial
  3. postbronchodilation
  4. postbronchodilator
  5. postbronchoscopic
  6. postbubble
  7. postbuccal
  8. postbuckling
  9. postbuild
  10. postbulbar
  11. postbureaucratic

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