English Explanatory Dictionary

boom and bust

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

boom and bust booms and busts boom-and-bust boom or bust boom-bust
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