boomletn.
/ˈbuːmlɪt/ Originally U.S.
A small boom, esp. on the Stock Exchange.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > traffic in stocks and shares > (sudden or great) activity
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1880 Puck (N.Y.) 21 Apr. 106/3 All the other booms and alleged boomlets.
1897 H. Bottomley in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era (1909) (at cited word) 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.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 9/2 A very favourable feature has been a recovery in Westralian stocks. Something like a boomlet prevailed at first.
1900 London Stock Market Rep. 18 Aug. 5 What may be called a Republican boomlet has been started in the Yankee corner.
1912 Throne 7 Aug. 238/2 The probability of a boom or a boomlet during the present month..appears to be very remote.
1961 New Statesman 27 Oct. 626/2 The boomlet in shipping shares collapsed at once.
1966 Economist 5 Mar. 919/1 A little boomlet in consumer demand towards the end of last year.
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