dollar decade en · NOUN
Etymology
Popularized by political scientist James Warren Prothro in his book The Dollar Decade: Business Ideas in the 1920's (1954).
Meanings
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(uncountable) The 1920s in the United States, marked by rapid economic expansion.
Near-synonyms: Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties
Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast.
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Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| the dollar decade | canonical | lexicographic | |
| Dollar Decade | alternative | lexicographic |