baby boom

noun

Definition

› [C] a period during which there is a big increase in the number of births, especially used to refer to the period in the UK and US between approximately 1945 and 1965: China experienced a baby boom after the Communist Party came to power in 1949. post-war baby boom

baby-boom adjective [before noun] › Health care costs are rising in an era of a growing and ageing baby-boom generation.

(Definition of baby boom noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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