Boom-or-Bustとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

boom or bust (comparative more boom or bust, superlative most boom or bust)

1. Alternative form of boom-and-bust, featuring or characterized by a boom and bust cycle.
   • 1970, “Problems of Capacity, Pulping Processes, Computerization”, in American Paper Industry, volume 52, page 33:

     Our industry has always been a “boom or bust” industry, with a plus or minus 5% swing being the difference between boom and bust.

   • 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, page 37:

     Perhaps it's best, then, for readers not raised in this milieu to imagine Fort Meade and its environs, if not the entire Beltway, as one enormous boom-or-bust company town.