释义 |
baby boomˈbaby boom noun [countable] - But as the baby boom generation retires, the fund faces the possibility of depletion by 2030.
- Fifty years ago, the United States first met the postwar baby boom without enough pediatricians, schools, jobs or housing.
- In the 1970s as the baby boom generation entered the labor force, capital-labor ratios rose more slowly or even fell.
- In the early years the baby boom carried almost all women before it.
- Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
- The baby boom generation lined up for their Sabin sugar cubes and hardly noticed that the Salk vaccine was disappearing.
- The study defined parents aged 30 to 50 as being members of the baby boom generation.
an increase in the number of babies born during a particular period, compared to other times – used especially about people born between 1946 and 1964: the baby boom generation |