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Meanings of commuter town in English

Russian
спальный район
Portuguese
cidade-dormitório
Spanish
ciudades dormitorio
Catalan
ciutat dormitori

Urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out.

спальный район
Synonyms
Examples for "exurb"
Examples for "exurb"
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The service was in a soulless crematorium, in another exurb of Phoenix.
The marks of cain
2
Rural, urban, suburb, or exurb?
Brains: a zombie memoir
3
Wasilla, Alaska, is an exurb; nearly one-third of its 6,000 people commute to Anchorage for work.
The Guardian
4
Whatever the Spirit decides, the ramifications will go far beyond the DC exurbs.
The Guardian
5
Maybe that will quell people's desire for a six-bedroom McMansion out in the exurbs.
Wired
1
It's difficult to find good value in London's commuter belt.
The Daily Telegraph
2
All five are in areas of rapid population growth in the Dublin commuter belt.
The Irish Times
3
South Kildare, like many parts of Dublin's rapidly-expanding commuter belt, is under acute pressure.
The Irish Times
4
Even Cavan is now in the capital's commuter belt, writes Frank McDonald, Environment Editor.
The Irish Times
5
The London commuter belt now arguably stretches from the Isle of Wight to Yorkshire.
The Guardian
1
If Staten Island was a bedroom community, this was its mud porch.
Driving Heat
2
It's a fairly opulent bedroom community, and has kind of a life of its own.
Dating game
3
The train derailed near Airdrie a bedroom community of Calgary, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
Reuters
4
Jeff's house was about fifteen miles west of downtown Knoxville, in the bedroom community of Farragut.
The devil's bones: a body farm novel
5
The brick townhouse looked like every other million dollar home in the affluent Washington bedroom community.
Terminal Compromise
1
Delvin in Co Westmeath is set to become Dublin's newest dormitory town.
The Irish Times
2
Violence was also reported in the Damascus dormitory town of Zabadani.
The Guardian
3
It's a dormitory town for thousands of people - but Ennis is not sleepy.
The Irish Times
4
It then charts a course through just about every depressing dormitory town in south-east England.
The Guardian
5
Spend a day in a cold dormitory town rather than watch it live on TV?
The Guardian
1
Melenchon on Sunday addressed several thousand people at a stadium south of Paris in Grigny, a low-income dormitory suburb.
Reuters
2
It will not, promises the chairman of development corporation, Michael Cassidy, have that "empty Stepford Wives feel" of dormitory suburbs outside working hours.
The Guardian
1
With just 175 residents, Perba is a tiny dormitory village a 40-minute drive northwest of Dresden.
The Irish Times
2
With just 175 residents, Perba is a tiny dormitory village a 40-minute drive northwest of Dr(...)
The Irish Times
Usage of commuter town in English
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Trains today rolled into the new station at Ireland's first purpose-built commuter town.
The Irish Times
2
A 90-minute off-peak drive from Dublin, for many Gorey is a commuter town.
The Irish Times
3
It's our oldest commuter town, a major port -and a planning mess.
The Irish Times
4
Maynooth, on the banks of the Royal Canal, might just be Dublin's prettiest commuter town.
The Irish Times
5
To the bonny Surrey commuter town of Walton-on-Thames, then!
The Guardian
6
Ratoath has become an important commuter town for Dublin city and has an excellent bus service.
The Irish Times
7
Meath on Track wants the Dublin-Meath rail line reopened to serve the rapidly expanding commuter town.
The Irish Times
8
It is accessed off Shackleton Road about 1km from the centre of this fast-growing commuter town.
The Irish Times
9
Reading is a major commuter town around 70 kilometres west of London and near to Heathrow Airport.
News.com.au
10
Otwock is a commuter town, situated on the winding Swider, a tributary of the massive River Vistula.
The Guardian
11
The Girl on the Train takes place in a fictional commuter town on the rail line from Euston.
The Guardian
12
He has seen the station turn from being a sleepy provincial backwater to being a busy commuter town.
The Irish Times
13
He has seen his station turn from serving a sleepy provincial backwater to serving a busy commuter town.
The Irish Times
14
Kinsale may be a commuter town to Cork city but it has many other strings to its bow.
The Irish Times
15
Drogheda is a popular commuter town.
The Irish Times
16
Naas has grown as a commuter town for Dublin but also as a hub for industry, due to its location and infrastructure.
The Irish Times