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Meanings of ex-urb 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"
      1
      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
      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
      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