(BrE) (AmE bedroom community, bedroom suburb) noun
a town that people live in and from where they travel to work in a bigger town or city:
Recently people have moved from the city centres to suburbs or dormitory towns.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of dormitory town come from?
This entry for dormitory town is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does dormitory town appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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