Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boom-and-bust

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English

Syllables: boom-and--bust
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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.

Example Sentences

"The continued boom‐and‐bust cycles in support of education and research constitute a costly waste of the nation's human resources."
"Florida was one of the most boom-and-bust states for home prices in the 2000s. The median price of a home in the Orlando area, for example, doubled from around $125,000 in 2002 to around $250,000 in 2006, before dropping just as fast."
"Caplan's concerns include the Williams and Oakervee Reviews, the boom-and-bust culture for rail funding, and the hiatus on major projects."

Inflected Forms

more boom-and-bust (comparative) most boom-and-bust (superlative)

Questions

What does boom-and-bust mean?: 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.

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