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boom
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.
boom
I. boom1 S3 /buːm/ noun Sense 1-3: [date : 1400-1500; Origin : ⇨ boom2] Sense 4-6: [date : 1500-1600; Language : Dutch; Origin : 'tree, long piece of wood'] 1. INCREASE IN BUSINESS [SINGULAR]a quick increase of business activity OPP slump: ▪ The boom has created job opportunities. boom in ▪ a sudden boom in the housing market consumer/investment/property etc boom ▪ the post-war property boom boom years/times ▪ In boom times, airlines do well. ▪ the economic boom of the 1950s ▪ The economy went from boom to bust (=from increasing to decreasing) very quickly. ⇨ boom town
2. WHEN SOMETHING IS POPULAR [SINGULAR]an increase in how popular or successful something is, or in how often it happens: ▪ the disco boom of the 1970s boom in ▪ the boom in youth soccer in the U.S. ⇨ baby boom
3. SOUND [COUNTABLE]a deep loud sound that you can hear for several seconds after it begins, especially the sound of an explosion or a large gun ⇨ sonic boom
4. BOAT [COUNTABLE]a long pole on a boat that is attached to the bottom of a sail, and that you move to change the position of the sail
5. LONG POLE [COUNTABLE] a) a long pole used as part of a piece of equipment that loads and unloads things b) a long pole that has a camera or microphone on the end
6. ON A RIVER/HARBOUR [COUNTABLE]something that is stretched across a river or a bay to prevent things floating down or across it • • • COLLOCATIONS ADJECTIVES/NOUN + boom ▪an economic boom ▪ the postwar economic boom ▪a property/housing boom (=a sudden increase in house prices) ▪ People made a lot of money in the 1980s property boom. ▪a consumer/spending boom (=a sudden increase in the amount people spend) ▪ Various factors caused the consumer boom. ▪a building/construction boom (=a sudden increase in building work) ▪ There’s been a recent construction boom in the Gulf. ▪an investment boom ▪ the investment boom of the past few years verbs ▪cause/lead to a boom ▪ Tax cuts sometimes lead to an economic boom. ▪trigger/spark a boom (=start it) ▪ The lower interest rates triggered an economic boom. ▪fuel a boom (=add to it) ▪ The energy crisis is fuelling a boom in alternative energy. ▪enjoy a boom ▪ Since then, China has enjoyed a remarkable boom. boom + NOUN ▪the boom years/times ▪ the boom years of the late 1980s phrases ▪go from boom to bust (=change from doing very well economically to doing very badly) ▪ The Mexican economy went from boom to bust very quickly. ▪at the height of the boom ▪ They sold their house at the height of the boom.
II. boom2 verb [date : 1400-1500; Origin : From the sound] 1. [INTRANSITIVE USUALLY IN PROGRESSIVE] if business, trade, or a particular area is booming, it is increasing and being very successful: ▪ Business was booming, and money wasn’t a problem. ▪ Tourism on the island has boomed.
2. (also boom out) [TRANSITIVE]to say something in a loud deep voice: ▪ ‘Ladies and gentlemen,’ his voice boomed out.
3. (also boom out) [INTRANSITIVE]to make a loud deep sound: ▪ Guns boomed in the distance.
—booming adjective: ▪ a booming economy
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