Definition of boomtown
:a town enjoying a business and population boom
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Our region — tech hub, global hot spot and real-estate boomtown — is in the midst of a surge that’s redefining ideas about wealth, getting ahead and just getting by.
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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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The character in question, Walt Murdock (Christopher Plummer), an Audubon Society warden, turns up in boomtown Miami in the early twentieth century to save the birds of the Everglades, which are threatened with extinction by poachers.
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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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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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