Economic Impacts

noun a person's compulsive need to shop and purchase items excessively, often leading to financial problems

• Shopping addiction is a serious mental health disorder that can lead to financial problems.
• I think my friend has a shopping addiction because she can't stop buying things.
• She's totally addicted to shopping, it's like her drug.
• His shopping addiction is like a black hole that sucks up all his money.

noun a process of extracting oil or gas from rock by injecting liquid at high pressure

verb to extract oil or gas from rock by injecting liquid at high pressure

• The company plans to frack the shale rock formation in order to extract natural gas.
• I heard they're going to frack in the field behind the old barn.
• They're gonna frack the heck out of that land for gas.
• His words seemed to frack through the tension in the room, breaking the silence.