Definition of "gold-rush" [gold-rush]

• A feverish rush to some newly discovered gold-field with the hope of amassing wealth. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In a sign of how gold-rush fever has spread throughout Silicon Valley, a wave of top managers like Mr. McLaughlin is leaving the executive suites of publicly held tech companies for the same jobs at smaller, closely held ones."
• "But outside Silverton lies another legacy of mining — one far quieter, and more treacherous, than a gold-rush saloon."
• "This created a gold-rush of thousands of peasant miners who abandoned farms and schools to mine in the Park, an area now controlled by the rebel Ruwandan Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) based in Goma, spreading devastation, drugs, delinquency and AIDS."