bedroom community

bedroom community
An urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.
Syn: commuter town, bedroom suburb, dormitory town

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  • bedroom community — bedroom com.munity also bedroom .suburb n AmE a place where people live but that does not have many businesses, so that people have to go to another town or city to work British Equivalent: dormitory town …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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  • bedroom suburb — bedroom suburb, U.S. a suburb inhabited by persons who work all day in the city and spend only the night at home. * * * ˈdormitory town [dormitory town] (BrE) (NAmE ˈbedroom community …   Useful english dictionary

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