bedroom community

English - English

Definition of bedroom community in English English dictionary

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

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

a community where many commuters live

Hyphenation

bed·room com·mu·ni·ty

Turkish pronunciation

bedrum kımyunıti

Synonyms

commuter town, bedroom suburb, dormitory town

Pronunciation

/ˈbedˌro͞om kəˈmyo͞onətē/ /ˈbɛdˌruːm kəˈmjuːnətiː/