Definition of boomtown
: a town enjoying a business and population boom
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Nashville is a boomtown, slurping up millennials and immigrants to work in health care, tech, auto parts, and education.
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Halliburton’s headcount has risen from 50,000 in 2016 to 55,000 at the end of last year, with much of the hiring concentrated in the boomtowns of Midland and Odessa in West Texas.
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Jerome was once a copper boomtown, a spiral of steep, winding streets that clings like an Italian hill village to a rise overlooking the Verde Valley.
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Not long after that, San Francisco went from a boomtown to a big city.
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Fieldwood raised wages for contractors last month to keep them from moving to Texas boomtowns.
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Logistics has turned the tiny farm community of Edgerton, 40 miles south of Kansas City, into a metro area boomtown in less than five years.
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Unalaska, which had been a small, mostly Native fishing village with a few hundred permanent residents, became a boomtown.
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Known for its place in history as a late 19th-century boomtown because of the presence of local silver mines, Tombstone is most famous as the site of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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First Known Use of boomtown
1896
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: a town that experiences a sudden growth in business and population : a booming town
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