boom-bust
Speech parts
1. boom-bust - Noun
2. boom-bust - Adjective
Meaning
boom-bust (plural boom-busts)
Contraction of boom-and-bust.
boom-bust (comparative more boom-bust, superlative most boom-bust)
Contraction of boom-and-bust.
boom-bust cycle
Synonyms
Examples
As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
It has continued on its usual path of encouraging boom-bust cycles, crises and recessions.
Neither the oil industry nor governments, consumers and investors have enjoyed the return of boom-bust oil prices over the last 15 years.