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boom town

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boom town
n
(Social Science / Human Geography) a town that is enjoying sudden prosperity or has grown rapidly
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Noun1.boom townboom town - a town enjoying sudden prosperity    
town - an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work"
Translations
boom town n → città f inv in rapidissima espansione
boom town n → città f inv in rapidissima espansione


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Morn packed sandwiches in a cooler, and the whole family drove off into the blue yonder, even if it wasn't too wild, for a two-week trip to some overcrowded summertime boom town.
Vacations go out of style by Crumpley, Charles / Los Angeles Business Journal
In the present, we follow the careers of some of his former students--one a factory worker in the new southern boom town of Shenzhen, two others starting out as teachers--and of a man Hessler calls Polat, a disaffected Uighur from Xinjiang in the far west, living by his wits in Beijing's thriving black market, later taking off for an uncertain life in the United States.
The Long March by Clifford, Nicholas / Commonweal
It's an old-fashioned boom town, in every sense of the word.
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