0 a situation in which a lot of people move to a place to try to find gold because they have heard that gold has been found there --
1 a situation in which a lot of people try to take advantage of an opportunity because they have heard that they might make a lot of money: --
We should, therefore, have reintroduced exchange controls immediately after devaluation and certainly we should have introduced them in the weeks immediately prior to the recent gold rush.
I suspect that there will be an almighty gold rush by the building societies.
The result has been a gold rush by the cable companies.
It is impossible to operate a kind of "gold rush" on the ocean floor.
That provided for peace and co-operation instead of a bonanza type gold rush, and it passed in this country virtually without notice.
Will it be on a gold rush scale?
There are many more trawlers joining in the "gold rush".
This latter-day gold rush, this hunger for materials, is now having extremely brutal social and environmental repercussions and is continuing to fuel wars and corruption.
