bedroom community
A suburban, exurban, or urban community that is primarily or exclusively residential,…A suburban, exurban, or urban community that is primarily or exclusively residential, as due to zoning, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.
» Sami lived in a bedroom community.
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1 sensesA suburban, exurban, or urban community that is primarily or exclusively residential, as due to zoning, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.
Trabantenstadt, Trabantensiedlung, Schlafstadt
спа́льный райо́нspálʹnyj rajón
- a community where many commuters live
Examples
2 sentencesSami lived in a bedroom community.
Sami grew up in a small bedroom community.
Translations
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Forms
plural: bedroom communities| Singular | bedroom community |
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Synonyms
5 synonymsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.