BOOM


Meaning of BOOM in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a booming economy (= extremely strong and successful )

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 )

the consumer boom of the 1980s in Britain

a population explosion/boom (= when the population increases quickly and by a large amount )

What will be the long-term effects of this population explosion?

baby boom

the baby boom generation

boom box

boom town

sonic boom

the boom years (= when an economy or industry is very successful )

In the boom years, things weren't too bad.

the economy booms (= becomes very successful very quickly )

The economy is booming and share prices are at an all-time high.

thunder crashes/booms

Thunder crashed overhead, waking the baby.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

big

There were two big booms , then the cloud started forming.

The biggest boom is in the scenic desert areas, which are laced with washes.

Listen for a big boom coming from the band office down there near Palm Drive.

economic

The potential economic boom has been welcomed by business leaders in Swindon.

Indeed, in almost every speech, he celebrates the economic boom of what he calls the Clinton-Gore administration.

Its appearance coincided with an economic boom and an ideological crisis.

Treatment of blacks altered slightly with the great depression of the thirties and the economic boom of the wartime forties.

The needy themselves, buoyed up by economic boom , have been happy to go along.

Is an economic boom an unsustainable trend?

The recent Mobilization for Global Justice raises the question: economic boom for whom?

By the eighteenth century, an economic boom had resulted in an active type of pre-capitalism, ready to take off.

great

The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums.

And our data do not even cover the effects of the great stock market boom of 1995 and 1996.

The truth is that the great economic boom provided employment - at home and for emigrants abroad-on a quite unprecedented scale.

This was 1869, a quarter century before the great bicycle boom , a time before bicycles were bicycles at all.

long

During the long post-war boom , argues Aglietta, such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism.

On this view, the 1980s are to be followed by a new long boom initiated by a series of innovations.

However, the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s.

Far from being on the edge of the abyss, we could be on the brink of a long boom .

new

It is one of two new boom trucks delivered that day.

The reason for this new boom would be, wait for it, upgradeability!

People braced for a new oil boom .

On this view, the 1980s are to be followed by a new long boom initiated by a series of innovations.

postwar

First, the postwar boom in college enrollments raised levels of civic engagement, offsetting the generational trends.

Fifty years ago, the United States first met the postwar baby boom without enough pediatricians, schools, jobs or housing.

Towards the end of the postwar boom , an imbalance between accumulation and the labour supply led to increasingly severe labour shortage.

Short Cuts captures the moment when the postwar economic boom began its decline into downward mobility.

sonic

Mysterious white beams stream down into the cold desert from saucer-shaped craft. Sonic booms rumble in the valleys at all hours.

A loud sonic boom was heard by observers on shore.

The frequency of published reports has actually declined since 1960 because people tend to dismiss loud explosions as merely military sonic booms .

Who could foresee the sonic boom when the needle finally hit the groove on my cheap record changer?

■ NOUN

baby

To be sure, there are more young men and women in this age group because of the 1960's baby boom .

In the 1970s as the baby boom generation entered the labor force, capital-labor ratios rose more slowly or even fell.

In the early years the baby boom carried almost all women before it.

The baby boom generation lined up for their Sabin sugar cubes and hardly noticed that the Salk vaccine was disappearing.

Fifty years ago, the United States first met the postwar baby boom without enough pediatricians, schools, jobs or housing.

The answer is a baby boom .

The study defined parents aged 30 to 50 as being members of the baby boom generation.

box

I take a boom box in the loo with me.

As a social service, how about installing our own classical music boom box ?

But then, two men toting boom boxes promenade at the same speed as the mobile.

construction

Too many people in authority have benefited from the construction boom over the past 20 years.

Consider that the Phoenix metropolitan area is in the midst of an apartment construction boom .

Budapest is enjoying a construction boom , and the government reported a sharp fall in unemployment last month.

At the peak of the 1980s construction boom , for example, the figure was nearly eight times that.

consumer

Lower interest rates designed to pep up the corporate sector threaten to add more fuel to the consumer boom .

In peacetime, the business became legitimate and was fueled by a consumer boom .

It was cashing in a spectacular consumer boom .

But these outcasts of the consumer boom have learned to make even a forlorn hope go a long way.

That is where so much of the consumer boom of the 1980s came from.

Prosperity, too, had been the product of small enterprises and a lengthy consumer boom financed by credit.

generation

In the 1970s as the baby boom generation entered the labor force, capital-labor ratios rose more slowly or even fell.

The baby boom generation lined up for their Sabin sugar cubes and hardly noticed that the Salk vaccine was disappearing.

The study defined parents aged 30 to 50 as being members of the baby boom generation .

But as the baby boom generation retires, the fund faces the possibility of depletion by 2030.

investment

Unfortunately, the hoped-for investment boom did not materialize.

Like the oil crisis of the 1970s, the California energy crisis is fueling an investment boom in alternative energy.

A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally, though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit.

All this means that the investment boom is over.

market

These new playthings greased the way for the emerging markets boom of the early 1990s.

And one must add, of course, the parallel stock market booms .

Analysts say that Shearson is paying the price for overmanning during the market boom which ended in 1987.

This transfer of resources has been recycled into higher investment and the stock market boom .

The frenzy of buying added to a stock market boom that began in May 1999.

And our data do not even cover the effects of the great stock market boom of 1995 and 1996.

The surge of profits fueling the stock market boom refuses to slacken.

oil

By 1974 the North Sea oil boom was gaining momentum rapidly.

Then along came the Gulf's oil boom and Western banks found themselves flooded with investments from oil-rich sheikhs.

People braced for a new oil boom .

Since our last visit to Aberdeen, which had been before the oil boom , the port had been transformed.

period

In this case, they would constitute a pool of labour which can be utilised in boom periods and disregarded in recessions.

The boom period ensured that every prairie city had two and sometimes three stations, some of them very short-lived indeed.

A boom period of speculative house building peaked between 1928 and 1936 when construction of 118,000 dwellings annually increased to 293,000.

These are harder to come by now than in the boom period of the late 1980s.

The period 1951-64 was a boom period for house building, both private and public.

Eventually, the economy reaches the peak of the cycle - the so-called boom period .

population

In the intermediate zone between a population boom and a population bust, this superfluous genetic material is pruned out.

property

The choice of suitable premises in Newport at the height of the property boom was not large.

The debacle of the 1971-3 property boom clearly demonstrated the significant extent to which city development was impacted by national economic policy.

This, of course, stemmed from the property boom of the period.

Beyond specific impacts, the property boom graphically illustrated the vulnerability of cities to national economic events beyond their control.

Some have gone to expats, causing a property boom and a total drought of flats for rent.

Both taxes came into operation at the time when the land and property boom turned into a slump.

There was a property boom in the seventies.

Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London.

town

This port, founded as late as 1 130, very quickly came to enjoy all the characteristics of a boom town .

The boom has created opportunities, and money has trickled down from the coastal boom towns to poorer inland regions.

The oil price hike in 1973 turned Nabru into a boom town .

Voice over Swindon is one of the eighties boom towns which has had to shoulder the burden of recession.

London was a boom town and the stock market was soaring.

As a kid it had always struck me that it was like some western boom town .

And really it was a boom town .

year

The boom years brought by Brian Little have gone.

Planned during the boom years of the late 1980s, it was to be the golf development parexcellence.

During the boom years of the 1980s the Duke of Westminter's company embarked on a building spree, especially in Mayfair.

Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years .

So again we would predict that the measured apc would be higher in a slump year than in a boom year.

The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties.

The 1970s were the boom years .

The boom years of the 1980s, however, have seen private-sector profitability soar.

years

The boom years brought by Brian Little have gone.

Planned during the boom years of the late 1980s, it was to be the golf development parexcellence.

During the boom years of the 1980s the Duke of Westminter's company embarked on a building spree, especially in Mayfair.

Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years .

The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties.

The 1970s were the boom years .

The boom years of the 1980s, however, have seen private-sector profitability soar.

Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s.

■ VERB

create

But has the Fed failed to prevent the imbalances created by the recent boom from getting out of hand?

Only after he committed suicide in February 1988 did the mass media acknowledge his talents and create a Bashlachev boom .

enjoy

Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years.

Budapest is enjoying a construction boom , and the government reported a sharp fall in unemployment last month.

experience

The docks were experiencing a boom in trade and all day long a steady stream of customers came and went.

In recent years -- not withstanding a recession-induced slowdown in 1992 -- corporate spending on culture has experienced a small boom .

But he also had the good fortune to take over National just as the industry began to experience an unprecedented four-year boom .

fuel

Growth in air travel is fuelling the boom .

Then on Wednesday night he forecast that interest rates would drop - fuelling the City boom .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a log boom

A more pressing problem is Mexico's dramatic baby boom .

a record-breaking boom in tourism

A sonic boom was heard by observers on the shore as the meteorite fell to earth.

Canada enjoyed a real economic boom in the postwar years.

Motorola is one of the leaders in the global technology boom .

the boom in cellular phone ownership

The boom of cannon continued for most of the day.

The fitness boom started in the 1970s.

The impact of the property boom was first felt in the financial markets.

The IT market is growing, thanks to the Internet boom .

the post-war property boom

There was a loud boom . The chemical works was on fire.

Witnesses heard the first loud boom at 3:03 p.m.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Extend your arms Keep them well down the boom to get the rig as upright as possible. 3.

From beginning to end, each cycle of boom and slump lasts, Kondratiev argued, for about fifty years.

In Gwinnett County, Ga., a boom that began more than a decade ago continues with no end in sight.

The boom years brought by Brian Little have gone.

The bias litigation boom is in large measure traceable to key changes in the Civil Rights Act of 1991.

The trends in prices and construction track very closely past cycles of booms and busts.

There were two big booms, then the cloud started forming.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

out

His own followers cheered him repeatedly as the rhetoric boomed out through the slight electronic distortion of the public address systems.

He learned how to boom out facts and figures to the city council members that they were unable to refute.

He boomed out , slipping in all the glottal stops and nasal sobs of an appallingly melodramatic tenor.

Tall man, booming out laughter and orders, watching us, adoring us.

A loud guffaw boomed out from the lounge and he glanced through the doorway, thankful to be out-of the way.

■ NOUN

business

Gloucestershire police say the pornographic video business appears to be booming , so a crackdown on the dealers is to be welcomed.

Or else because business was booming , the money was there, and the experiments might just possibly pay off some day.

When their businesses were booming , they could afford to pose as tough-talking entrepreneurs keen to take on the telephone companies.

Its paging business was booming , and annual operating profits broke the $ 1 billion mark.

People migrated into the villages and towns of the coalfield where business was booming .

Schilling fought it, but since business was booming , he was shouted down.

He realised that when Field played his pianos in City salerooms, business boomed .

economy

And then when the economy starts booming they start spending more because they have got nice surpluses.

Underwire EconomiesThe dark side: the informal economy booms .

The economy booms like cannon, far out at sea on a lone ship.

As her economy boomed , she needed more black labor.

Ireland, whose economy is booming , is looking at allowing in 200,000 skilled workers over seven years.

The economy is booming and reaching out to some previously neglected economic sectors.

As the economy boomed , champagne boomed with it, becoming the house wine of the upwardly mobile.

Local governments, too, cooperated, glad to have their economy boomed for them.

industry

As the media went rabid with outrage, a for and against Manson/Family industry began to boom .

On the contrary, the industry is booming , although these days it goes by the name of direct selling.

Next thing she knew, the industry was booming , and sales poured in.

market

The range of sports programmes, live and packaged, is extraordinary, while the videotape market is booming .

With thousands of new residents arriving in Las Vegas each month, the housing market is booming .

thunder

A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook.

They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder , booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.

trade

Foreign trade is booming , but not enough to account for a doubling of stock prices.

Pat Buchanan not withstanding, trade is booming more than ever before.

voice

People passing in the street would hear his voice booming through the big wisteria -hung window that looked down the hill.

Most of all her voice booms , whether she's praising her spicy Southwest eggs or when she sings opera on stage.

His abusive father routine earned him a spontaneous burst of applause, his voice booming to the rafters.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Cellnet has 800,000 subscribers, and business is booming.

Tourism boomed here in the late 1990s.

We're happy to report that business is booming this year.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook.

Coastal development and tourism are booming.

Every time Peter said a word, his father would boom him.

I boomed one drive 265 yards.

Lower marginal rates would also improve work incentives and shrink the black economy, which is said to be booming.

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