boomer
noun
boom·er
Definition of boomer
1 : one that booms
2 : one that joins a rush of settlers to a boom area
3 : a transient worker (such as a bridge builder)
4 : a person born during a baby boom : baby boomer
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Apartment living has become one of Kansas City’s biggest trends, emerging as a preference for mortgage-shy millennials and baby boomers wanting to downsize.
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Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan has repeatedly called for immigration policies that will help replace workers as baby boomers retire.
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Contributing to the trend has been the continuing retirements of America’s vast generation of baby boomers.
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In a move that shirks a tradition as old as baby boomers, law schools around the country are starting to consider accepting an admission test other than the LSAT.
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The theory was that boomers who had spent their productive years investing for retirement would now be liquidating their stock holdings either to live on or to protect their next eggs by shifting into bonds.
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A recent study Bensinger, DuPont & Associates shows one in five millennial workers reported being depressed compared to just 16 percent each for baby boomers and Generation Xers.
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And the problem will likely only get worse as more baby boomers retire with few to no assets other than their federal disbursements.
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The aging baby boomers, born in the wake of World War II, at the beginning of the 20th century's 40-year global economic boom, are fading from their prominent positions of economic and moral leadership.
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1880
First Known Use of boomer
1880
BOOMER Defined for English Language Learners
boomer
noun
Definition of boomer for English Language Learners
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: a person born during a period of time when many babies were born : a person born during a baby boom
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