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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce]
2: a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1876 1. a rush to newly discovered goldfields in pursuit of riches 2. the headlong pursuit of sudden wealth in a new or lucrative field • gold rusher noun

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gold rushes) A gold rush is a situation when a lot of people suddenly go to a place where gold has been discovered. N-COUNT