"boom and bust" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: booms and busts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|booms and busts}} boom and bust (plural booms and busts)
  1. (economics, finance, business) A pattern of high prices in a given market or in the entire economy followed by ruinously low prices, falling production, and bankruptcies by producers; prosperity followed by recession. Categories (topical): Business, Economics, Finance Synonyms: boom-and-bust [adjective], boom or bust, boom-bust Translations (pattern in prices): رونق و رکود (rownaq o rokud) (Persian)

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