| 释义 |
boomlet orig. U.S.|ˈbuːmlɪt|
[f. boom n.3 + -let.]
A small boom, esp. on the Stock Exchange.
1880Puck (U.S.) 21 Apr. 106/3 All the other booms and alleged boomlets. 1897H. Bottomley in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. (1909) s.v., I may mention that during the recent West Australian boom—or, as some of my Stock Exchange friends prefer to call it, ‘boomlet’—we succeeded in realising, etc. 1898Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 9/2 A very favourable feature has been a recovery in Westralian stocks. Something like a boomlet prevailed at first. 1900London Stock Market Rep. 18 Aug. 5 What may be called a Republican boomlet has been started in the Yankee corner. 1961New Statesman 27 Oct. 626/2 The boomlet in shipping shares collapsed at once. 1966Economist 5 Mar. 919/1 A little boomlet in consumer demand towards the end of last year. |