Synonym: advance, beam, flourish, gain, grow, increase, pole, progress, roar, rumble, swell, thrive, thunder. Antonym: slump. Similar words: room, book, boot, booth, boost, bedroom, book for, bathroom. Meaning: [buːm] n. 1. a deep prolonged loud noise 2. a state of economic prosperity 3. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) 4. a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set 5. any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring. v. 1. make a resonant sound, like artillery 2. hit hard 3. be the case that thunder is being heard 4. make a deep hollow sound 5. grow stronger.
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211. The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
212. The family planning boom Today there are more women using modern contraception than ever before.
213. The boom in ecotourism has certainly seen a welcome expansion of special interest holiday options.
214. Spicer points out that the sector has thrived in a bull market but the advertising boom may be coming to an end.
215. The debacle of the 1971-3 property boom clearly demonstrated the significant extent to which city development was impacted by national economic policy.
216. These new playthings greased the way for the emerging markets boom of the early 1990s.
217. Since our last visit to Aberdeen, which had been before the oil boom, the port had been transformed.
218. But as the baby boom generation retires, the fund faces the possibility of depletion by 2030.
219. It is one of two new boom trucks delivered that day.
220. Its appearance coincided with an economic boom and an ideological crisis.
221. The boom has created opportunities, and money has trickled down from the coastal boom towns to poorer inland regions.
222. Every time Peter said a word, his father would boom him.
223. Far from being on the edge of the abyss, we could be on the brink of a long boom.
224. Only after he committed suicide in February 1988 did the mass media acknowledge his talents and create a Bashlachev boom.
225. Short Cuts captures the moment when the postwar economic boom began its decline into downward mobility.
226. Our overconsumption is fueling this economic boom, but at a heavy cost to the environment.
227. Dave Escott bought at the height of the boom, and any back rent will only add to his negative equity.
228. A sonic boom was heard by observers on the shore as the meteorite fell to earth.
229. These are harder to come by now than in the boom period of the late 1980s.
230. The frenzy of buying added to a stock market boom that began in May 1999.
231. But he also had the good fortune to take over National just as the industry began to experience an unprecedented four-year boom.
232. Analysts say that Shearson is paying the price for overmanning during the market boom which ended in 1987.
233. Finally[sentencedict.com], the price rise was a product of the boom in a more general and fundamental sense.
234. It too has suffered a long-term decline in the manufacturing industry combined with an accelerating boom in the service sector.
235. This quality time nonsense also accounts for the boom in soccer for kids ages 4 to 7.
236. It marked the beginning of the London Stock Exchange and an international trading boom for Britain.
237. The entrepreneurial boom was supercharged by two developments.
238. Crane can be assigned one or more telescopic boom.
239. In my neighborhood there is a baby boom.
240. The RBI is also concerned about a credit boom.