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boom or bust en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of boom-and-bust, featuring or characterized by a boom and bust cycle.
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.
2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 37:Our industry has always been a “boom or bust” industry, with a plus or minus 5% swing being the difference between boom and bust.
1970, “Problems of Capacity, Pulping Processes, Computerization”, in American Paper Industry, volume 52, page 33:
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boom or bust en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of boom and bust, a pattern of great prosperity followed by recession
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.
1941, Blair Moody, Boom or Bust, page 317:I don't know if it would work out that way, but I know the grocery store would “boom or bust.”
1911, Albert Bull, Sound Business, page 142:
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