N-COUNT (商业活动的)繁荣-萧条周期 A boom-bust cycle is a series of events in which a rapid increase in business activity in the economy is followed by a rapid decrease in business activity, and this process is repeated again and again. (商业活动的)繁荣-萧条周期 [business]
We must avoid the damaging boom-bust cycles which characterised the 1980s.