Collocations withboom
These are words often used in combination withboom.
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dot-com boom
Published at the height of the dot-com boom, it put forth several arguments demonstrating how the stock markets were overvalued at the time.
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economic boom
Such description covers times of economic boom and bust on both sides of the border.
From theCambridge English Corpus
huge boom
These factors provided both the incentive and the means for a huge boom in business investment—perhaps the biggest since the war.
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mining boom
Like most mining boom towns, the population included a small number of women and children compared to the very large male population.
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oil boom
During the oil boom, high international coffee and cocoa prices and more favorable producer price policies encouraged forest clearing to plant coffee and cocoa.
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postwar boom
The long postwar boom ended in the 1970s, amid the economic crises experienced following the 1973 oil crisis.
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real estate boom
A real estate boom ended in a bust.
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recent boom
Agrarian values run deep here, even though the region is experiencing a recent boom in small-scale diamond and gold mining.
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speculative boom
The early years of the decade witnessed a speculative boom in manufacturing and unparalleled investment in mining resulting in an unprecedented period of prosperity for workers.
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the baby boom generation
Particularly, the impending retirement of the baby boom generation is raising a great deal of concern.
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unprecedented boom
The reason is the unprecedented boom in the popularity of sport over the last few decades and, obviously, the rich rewards that accompany it.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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