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gold rush

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gold rush in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
    "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"
    boom  bonanza  gold rush  gravy  godsend  manna from heaven  windfall  bunce 
  2. a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field
    gold rush 
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gold rush in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (noun) Any period of feverish migration into an area in which gold has been discovered
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