Sekirov Dictionary

boom-and-bust

adjective 1
boom and bust noun 1
forms 3

adjective1

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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

boom and bust noun1

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.

forms

booms and busts · more boom-and-bust · most boom-and-bust

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