gold rush

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gold rush

1. A rush of migrants to an area where gold has been discovered.

2. Headlong pursuit of wealth and success: a gold rush on Wall Street.

gold rush

(Mining & Quarrying) a large-scale migration of people to a territory where gold has been found

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Noun	1.	gold rush - a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" bunce, godsend, bonanza, manna from heaven, windfall, boom, gravy happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens
	2.	gold rush - a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field migration - the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

Translations

gold rush n → corsa all'oro

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