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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person born during a baby boom, especially the one in the United States and Canada from the mid 1940s to the early 1960s.
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- noun A person born in the
postwar years (generally considered in the USA and otherAllied countries as between 1945 and the early 1960s), when there was an increase in thebirth rate following the return ofservicemen at the end ofWorld War II .
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- noun a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
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kmckoane commented on the word baby boomer
I like this choice. It relates to outliers when talking about dates and opportunities and its when all the baby's were born between certain years.
September 28, 2011