Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boom or bust

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English

Syllables: boom or -bust
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of boom and bust, a pattern of great prosperity followed by recession

adj

Alternative form of boom-and-bust, featuring or characterized by a boom and bust cycle.

Example Sentences

"I don't know if it would work out that way, but I know the grocery store would “boom or bust.”"
"After the war, it will be boom or bust! The United States kept laissez-faire too long and it let us drift into a precarious predicament."
"Our industry has always been a “boom or bust” industry, with a plus or minus 5% swing being the difference between boom and bust."
"Perhaps it's best, then, for readers not raised in this milieu to imagine Fort Meade and its environs, if not the entire Beltway, as one enormous boom-or-bust company town."

Inflected Forms

booms (plural) busts (plural) more boom or bust (comparative) most boom or bust (superlative)

Questions

What does boom or bust mean?: Alternative form of boom and bust, a pattern of great prosperity followed by recession

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