单词 | boom town |
释义 | > as lemmasboom town boom town n. one that owes its origin, growth, or prosperity to a boom in a particular trade, mining, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > prosperous place boom town1896 boom city1904 1896 Chautauquan 23 219/1 Who first began to talk about..‘boom’ towns? 1906 N.Y. Evening Post 4 Aug. 4 Quite as melancholy..are the frame-built ‘boom’ towns of the West, located where the railroad was once expected to go, but did not. 1955 Times 20 May 14/1 Some call Wolverhampton a ‘boom town’. There are full employment, high wages, and no industrial unrest. < as lemmas |
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