noun
1. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
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the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
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• Hypernyms: ↑happening, ↑occurrence, ↑occurrent, ↑natural event
2. a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field
• Hypernyms: ↑migration
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gold rush,
1. a sudden rush of people to a place where gold has just been found.
2. a rush to buy gold, especially as a hedge against inflation.
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n. a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield. The first major gold rush, to California in 1848 - 49, was followed by others in the U.S., Australia (1851 - 53), South Africa (1884), and Canada (Klondike, 1897 - 98)
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noun, pl ⋯ rushes [count]
: a situation in which many people go quickly to a place where gold has been discovered because they hope to find more gold and become rich
the California gold rush of 1849
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a situation in which a lot of people suddenly go to a place where gold has recently been discovered
Useful english dictionary. 2012.