speculative boom

collocation in English

meaningsofspeculativeandboom

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speculative
adjective
uk
/ˈspek.jə.lə.tɪv/us
/ˈspek.jə.lə.t̬ɪv/
based on a guess and not ...
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boom
noun
uk
/buːm/us
/buːm/
a deep and loud ...
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(Definition ofspeculativeandboomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The early years of the decade witnessed aspeculativeboomin manufacturing and unparalleled investment in mining resulting in an unprecedented period of prosperity for workers.
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Thus, a vast accumulation of short-term balances took place coming on top of a recklessspeculativeboom in assets, both creating an extremely unstable situation.
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Some of the indices reflect world-wide commodity prices and the collapse of thespeculativeboomin at least certain commodities.
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They appear to be (1) to obtain new money, and (2) to arrest thespeculativeboomthat was upon us.
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We were faced at the outbreak of war with aspeculativeboomin certain foreign countries, which further complicated the task of buying.
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It is amazing that people should have such short memories as not to remember the difficulties—the soaring land prices, thespeculativeboomand the appalling shortage of land.
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Speculativeboomin stock market resulted from the expanding economy and the market indices moved up nearly 400% from 1926 to 1929.
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The wool boom continued into the 1850s and in addition to aspeculativeboomin copper-mining shares investment in the region grew considerably.
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Aspeculativeboomfuelled construction and rail building in the region in the 1850s and 1860s.
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The project failed soon afterward as thespeculativeboomgenerated by the diamond discovery collapsed.
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The authorities, one would suppose, must have been aware how completely different the new situation was from the intermittent speculative booms that we had known before the war.
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