baby boom

IPA: bˈeɪbibˈum

(demography) A period marked by a signifiant increase in the birth rate.
(singular only) The increase in the birth rate following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.

Examples of "baby-boom" in Sentences

The number of new cases of Alzheimer's are expected to sharply increase as the baby-boom generation ages.
The number of grandparent drivers is expected to increase in the coming years as more members of the baby-boom generation become grandparents.
But since I'm not entirely naïve and this practice will probably accelerate given the baby-boom generation's narcissism and need for instant gratification if Ed Koch has now been rendered immortal can Rudy Giuliani be far behind?
It was the fact that so many of those most subversive of films were being turned out by the studios, which, for a brief period, sort of lost their collective minds in the wake of Easy Rider and the rise of the baby-boom generation.
But even if the economy were stronger, the programs would be facing pressure in coming years as the large baby-boom generation reaches old age and people tend to live longer, leaving comparatively fewer workers to pay benefits for a large cadre of retirees.

What producers hope is that pop composers can lure babyboom fans -- and even younger audiences -- to Broadway.
The babyboom generation is collectively reaching the age where their own mortality is becoming apparent to them.
In the past decade, 1.8 million buy-to-let properties have been created - purchased in the main by the babyboom generation.
This would be lower than any decade since the 1940s: the babyboom bulge has passed, and the influx of women into jobs is abating.
Elaine's "worst case" (her words) theory was that the bulk of the population (babyboom) lived through the assassinations (and, for MLK, the Civil Rights Movement).
The United States has no coherent plan to pay for supporting a retiree pool that is about to overflow with the so-called "babyboom" generation, and lawmakers missed an opportunity to address that during the debt debate that dragged the country to the edge of default this week.
After 8 years of the disastrous Bush Administration's taxcuts for the wealthy, the country's debt skyrocketed just as the babyboom generation (68 million strong) were set to retire and increasingly draw down from social security, so that there would be reduced opportunities to offset deficits with social security funds.