I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a booming economy (= extremely strong and successful )
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What can we learn from China’s booming economy?
a consumer boom (= a time when people spend a lot more money on buying things than usual )
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the consumer boom of the 1980s in Britain
a population explosion/boom (= when the population increases quickly and by a large amount )
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What will be the long-term effects of this population explosion?
baby boom
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the baby boom generation
boom box
boom town
sonic boom
the boom years (= when an economy or industry is very successful )
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In the boom years, things weren't too bad.
the economy booms (= becomes very successful very quickly )
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The economy is booming and share prices are at an all-time high.
thunder crashes/booms
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Thunder crashed overhead, waking the baby.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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There were two big booms , then the cloud started forming.
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The biggest boom is in the scenic desert areas, which are laced with washes.
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Listen for a big boom coming from the band office down there near Palm Drive.
economic
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The potential economic boom has been welcomed by business leaders in Swindon.
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Indeed, in almost every speech, he celebrates the economic boom of what he calls the Clinton-Gore administration.
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Its appearance coincided with an economic boom and an ideological crisis.
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Treatment of blacks altered slightly with the great depression of the thirties and the economic boom of the wartime forties.
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The needy themselves, buoyed up by economic boom , have been happy to go along.
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Is an economic boom an unsustainable trend?
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The recent Mobilization for Global Justice raises the question: economic boom for whom?
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By the eighteenth century, an economic boom had resulted in an active type of pre-capitalism, ready to take off.
great
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The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums.
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And our data do not even cover the effects of the great stock market boom of 1995 and 1996.
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The truth is that the great economic boom provided employment - at home and for emigrants abroad-on a quite unprecedented scale.
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This was 1869, a quarter century before the great bicycle boom , a time before bicycles were bicycles at all.
long
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During the long post-war boom , argues Aglietta, such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism.
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On this view, the 1980s are to be followed by a new long boom initiated by a series of innovations.
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However, the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s.
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Far from being on the edge of the abyss, we could be on the brink of a long boom .
new
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It is one of two new boom trucks delivered that day.
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The reason for this new boom would be, wait for it, upgradeability!
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People braced for a new oil boom .
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On this view, the 1980s are to be followed by a new long boom initiated by a series of innovations.
postwar
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First, the postwar boom in college enrollments raised levels of civic engagement, offsetting the generational trends.
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Fifty years ago, the United States first met the postwar baby boom without enough pediatricians, schools, jobs or housing.
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Towards the end of the postwar boom , an imbalance between accumulation and the labour supply led to increasingly severe labour shortage.
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Short Cuts captures the moment when the postwar economic boom began its decline into downward mobility.
sonic
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Mysterious white beams stream down into the cold desert from saucer-shaped craft. Sonic booms rumble in the valleys at all hours.
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A loud sonic boom was heard by observers on shore.
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The frequency of published reports has actually declined since 1960 because people tend to dismiss loud explosions as merely military sonic booms .
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Who could foresee the sonic boom when the needle finally hit the groove on my cheap record changer?
■ NOUN
baby
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To be sure, there are more young men and women in this age group because of the 1960's baby boom .
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In the 1970s as the baby boom generation entered the labor force, capital-labor ratios rose more slowly or even fell.
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In the early years the baby boom carried almost all women before it.
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The baby boom generation lined up for their Sabin sugar cubes and hardly noticed that the Salk vaccine was disappearing.
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Fifty years ago, the United States first met the postwar baby boom without enough pediatricians, schools, jobs or housing.
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The answer is a baby boom .
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The study defined parents aged 30 to 50 as being members of the baby boom generation.
box
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I take a boom box in the loo with me.
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As a social service, how about installing our own classical music boom box ?
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But then, two men toting boom boxes promenade at the same speed as the mobile.
construction
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Too many people in authority have benefited from the construction boom over the past 20 years.
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Consider that the Phoenix metropolitan area is in the midst of an apartment construction boom .
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Budapest is enjoying a construction boom , and the government reported a sharp fall in unemployment last month.
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At the peak of the 1980s construction boom , for example, the figure was nearly eight times that.
consumer
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Lower interest rates designed to pep up the corporate sector threaten to add more fuel to the consumer boom .
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In peacetime, the business became legitimate and was fueled by a consumer boom .
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It was cashing in a spectacular consumer boom .
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But these outcasts of the consumer boom have learned to make even a forlorn hope go a long way.
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That is where so much of the consumer boom of the 1980s came from.
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Prosperity, too, had been the product of small enterprises and a lengthy consumer boom financed by credit.
generation
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In the 1970s as the baby boom generation entered the labor force, capital-labor ratios rose more slowly or even fell.
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The baby boom generation lined up for their Sabin sugar cubes and hardly noticed that the Salk vaccine was disappearing.
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The study defined parents aged 30 to 50 as being members of the baby boom generation .
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But as the baby boom generation retires, the fund faces the possibility of depletion by 2030.
investment
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Unfortunately, the hoped-for investment boom did not materialize.
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Like the oil crisis of the 1970s, the California energy crisis is fueling an investment boom in alternative energy.
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A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally, though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit.
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All this means that the investment boom is over.
market
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These new playthings greased the way for the emerging markets boom of the early 1990s.
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And one must add, of course, the parallel stock market booms .
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Analysts say that Shearson is paying the price for overmanning during the market boom which ended in 1987.
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This transfer of resources has been recycled into higher investment and the stock market boom .
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The frenzy of buying added to a stock market boom that began in May 1999.
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And our data do not even cover the effects of the great stock market boom of 1995 and 1996.
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The surge of profits fueling the stock market boom refuses to slacken.
oil
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By 1974 the North Sea oil boom was gaining momentum rapidly.
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Then along came the Gulf's oil boom and Western banks found themselves flooded with investments from oil-rich sheikhs.
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People braced for a new oil boom .
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Since our last visit to Aberdeen, which had been before the oil boom , the port had been transformed.
period
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In this case, they would constitute a pool of labour which can be utilised in boom periods and disregarded in recessions.
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The boom period ensured that every prairie city had two and sometimes three stations, some of them very short-lived indeed.
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A boom period of speculative house building peaked between 1928 and 1936 when construction of 118,000 dwellings annually increased to 293,000.
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These are harder to come by now than in the boom period of the late 1980s.
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The period 1951-64 was a boom period for house building, both private and public.
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Eventually, the economy reaches the peak of the cycle - the so-called boom period .
population
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In the intermediate zone between a population boom and a population bust, this superfluous genetic material is pruned out.
property
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The choice of suitable premises in Newport at the height of the property boom was not large.
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The debacle of the 1971-3 property boom clearly demonstrated the significant extent to which city development was impacted by national economic policy.
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This, of course, stemmed from the property boom of the period.
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Beyond specific impacts, the property boom graphically illustrated the vulnerability of cities to national economic events beyond their control.
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Some have gone to expats, causing a property boom and a total drought of flats for rent.
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Both taxes came into operation at the time when the land and property boom turned into a slump.
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There was a property boom in the seventies.
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Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London.
town
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This port, founded as late as 1 130, very quickly came to enjoy all the characteristics of a boom town .
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The boom has created opportunities, and money has trickled down from the coastal boom towns to poorer inland regions.
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The oil price hike in 1973 turned Nabru into a boom town .
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Voice over Swindon is one of the eighties boom towns which has had to shoulder the burden of recession.
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London was a boom town and the stock market was soaring.
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As a kid it had always struck me that it was like some western boom town .
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And really it was a boom town .
year
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The boom years brought by Brian Little have gone.
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Planned during the boom years of the late 1980s, it was to be the golf development parexcellence.
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During the boom years of the 1980s the Duke of Westminter's company embarked on a building spree, especially in Mayfair.
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Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years .
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So again we would predict that the measured apc would be higher in a slump year than in a boom year.
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The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties.
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The 1970s were the boom years .
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The boom years of the 1980s, however, have seen private-sector profitability soar.
years
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The boom years brought by Brian Little have gone.
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Planned during the boom years of the late 1980s, it was to be the golf development parexcellence.
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During the boom years of the 1980s the Duke of Westminter's company embarked on a building spree, especially in Mayfair.
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Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years .
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The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties.
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The 1970s were the boom years .
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The boom years of the 1980s, however, have seen private-sector profitability soar.
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Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s.
■ VERB
create
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But has the Fed failed to prevent the imbalances created by the recent boom from getting out of hand?
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Only after he committed suicide in February 1988 did the mass media acknowledge his talents and create a Bashlachev boom .
enjoy
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Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years.
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Budapest is enjoying a construction boom , and the government reported a sharp fall in unemployment last month.
experience
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The docks were experiencing a boom in trade and all day long a steady stream of customers came and went.
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In recent years -- not withstanding a recession-induced slowdown in 1992 -- corporate spending on culture has experienced a small boom .
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But he also had the good fortune to take over National just as the industry began to experience an unprecedented four-year boom .
fuel
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Growth in air travel is fuelling the boom .
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Then on Wednesday night he forecast that interest rates would drop - fuelling the City boom .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a log boom
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A more pressing problem is Mexico's dramatic baby boom .
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a record-breaking boom in tourism
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A sonic boom was heard by observers on the shore as the meteorite fell to earth.
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Canada enjoyed a real economic boom in the postwar years.
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Motorola is one of the leaders in the global technology boom .
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the boom in cellular phone ownership
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The boom of cannon continued for most of the day.
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The fitness boom started in the 1970s.
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The impact of the property boom was first felt in the financial markets.
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The IT market is growing, thanks to the Internet boom .
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the post-war property boom
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There was a loud boom . The chemical works was on fire.
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Witnesses heard the first loud boom at 3:03 p.m.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Extend your arms Keep them well down the boom to get the rig as upright as possible. 3.
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From beginning to end, each cycle of boom and slump lasts, Kondratiev argued, for about fifty years.
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In Gwinnett County, Ga., a boom that began more than a decade ago continues with no end in sight.
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The boom years brought by Brian Little have gone.
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The bias litigation boom is in large measure traceable to key changes in the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
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The trends in prices and construction track very closely past cycles of booms and busts.
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There were two big booms, then the cloud started forming.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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His own followers cheered him repeatedly as the rhetoric boomed out through the slight electronic distortion of the public address systems.
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He learned how to boom out facts and figures to the city council members that they were unable to refute.
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He boomed out , slipping in all the glottal stops and nasal sobs of an appallingly melodramatic tenor.
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Tall man, booming out laughter and orders, watching us, adoring us.
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A loud guffaw boomed out from the lounge and he glanced through the doorway, thankful to be out-of the way.
■ NOUN
business
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Gloucestershire police say the pornographic video business appears to be booming , so a crackdown on the dealers is to be welcomed.
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Or else because business was booming , the money was there, and the experiments might just possibly pay off some day.
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When their businesses were booming , they could afford to pose as tough-talking entrepreneurs keen to take on the telephone companies.
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Its paging business was booming , and annual operating profits broke the $ 1 billion mark.
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People migrated into the villages and towns of the coalfield where business was booming .
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Schilling fought it, but since business was booming , he was shouted down.
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He realised that when Field played his pianos in City salerooms, business boomed .
economy
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And then when the economy starts booming they start spending more because they have got nice surpluses.
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Underwire EconomiesThe dark side: the informal economy booms .
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The economy booms like cannon, far out at sea on a lone ship.
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As her economy boomed , she needed more black labor.
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Ireland, whose economy is booming , is looking at allowing in 200,000 skilled workers over seven years.
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The economy is booming and reaching out to some previously neglected economic sectors.
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As the economy boomed , champagne boomed with it, becoming the house wine of the upwardly mobile.
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Local governments, too, cooperated, glad to have their economy boomed for them.
industry
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As the media went rabid with outrage, a for and against Manson/Family industry began to boom .
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On the contrary, the industry is booming , although these days it goes by the name of direct selling.
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Next thing she knew, the industry was booming , and sales poured in.
market
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The range of sports programmes, live and packaged, is extraordinary, while the videotape market is booming .
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With thousands of new residents arriving in Las Vegas each month, the housing market is booming .
thunder
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A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook.
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They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder , booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.
trade
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Foreign trade is booming , but not enough to account for a doubling of stock prices.
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Pat Buchanan not withstanding, trade is booming more than ever before.
voice
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People passing in the street would hear his voice booming through the big wisteria -hung window that looked down the hill.
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Most of all her voice booms , whether she's praising her spicy Southwest eggs or when she sings opera on stage.
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His abusive father routine earned him a spontaneous burst of applause, his voice booming to the rafters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cellnet has 800,000 subscribers, and business is booming.
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Tourism boomed here in the late 1990s.
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We're happy to report that business is booming this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook.
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Coastal development and tourism are booming.
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Every time Peter said a word, his father would boom him.
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I boomed one drive 265 yards.
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Lower marginal rates would also improve work incentives and shrink the black economy, which is said to be booming.