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boom or bust

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boom-or-bust

[boom-er-buhst]
–adjective
boom-and-bust.

boom-and-bust

[boom-uhn-buhst]
–adjective
characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.


Origin:
1940–45
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