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postbubble en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English bubble English postbubble From post- + bubble.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Occurring after the collapse of an economic bubble
    • He said that he feared Silicon Valley would return "to the postbubble period where we saw a lot of acquisitions, but most of them were fire sales." 2009 January 6, Claire Cain Miller, “Investors Strain to Sell Start-Up Companies”, in New York Times: