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Definition of boomtown
: a town enjoying a business and population boom
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In boomtown Seattle, the benefits of growth mostly go to the top, while the costs already are heaped, disproportionately, on the middle and bottom.
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Los Alamos rapidly became a science boomtown; its population exploded to 8,000 scientists, support staff, members of the military and their families, most living in barracks-style housing and Quonset huts.
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Taylor's legacy is thousands of splendid photographs — many of them from glass negatives — of the people of a wilderness hamlet that became a lumber boomtown after the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ran a spur to it in 1901.
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The college junior spent the summer looking for work in boomtowns of southern China.
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News of her absence coursed through the boomtowns, travelling from porch to porch, from store to store. Fuelling the unease were reports that another Osage, Charles Whitehorn, had vanished a week before Anna had.
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In addition to the concrete, the need would emerge for what would essentially be traveling boomtowns for workers.
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His neighborhood, on the edge of what was once a prosperous oil boomtown, had long been running out of basics like corn flour and bread.
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There is no major club within 150 miles — the nearest Bundesliga rival is Hertha Berlin — and the city, once part of East Germany, is a boomtown known to locals as Hypezig.
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First Known Use of boomtown
1896
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Definition of boomtown for English Language Learners
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: a town that experiences a sudden growth in business and population : a booming town
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