Boom-and-bust

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Featuring or characterized by a boom and bust cycle in a market or an economy, in which rapid price increase is followed by falling prices or recession.

    "The continued boom‐and‐bust cycles in support of education and research constitute a costly waste of the nation's human resources."

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"The continued boom‐and‐bust cycles in support of education and research constitute a costly waste of the nation's human resources."

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