gold rush

noun

a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.

Origin

1875-80, Americanism

Examples from the web for gold rush

The genomics gold rush revolves around genes that have been isolated and purified outside an animal, plant or microorganism.
Last but not people wanting to undertake treatment delivery as in gold rush can be counterproductive.
There's a danger, however, in that it's a bit of a gold rush land grab at the moment.
Indeed, water auctions may turn out to test the limits of the global privatization gold rush.
They're at the vanguard of a new gold rush-a race this time to capture the sun's golden rays.
As the old saying goes, the way to make money during a gold rush is to be the one selling shovels.
Its history also includes a gold rush, an energy boom and the development of a thriving farm sector.
Critics worry that the gold rush toward biofuels is taking away food from the hungry.
They used to say that the people who got rich in the gold rush were the people who sold the tools and the shovels.
Still, some are not yet ready to call the end of the gold rush.

British Dictionary definitions for gold rush

noun

a large-scale migration of people to a territory where gold has been found