bedroom communities

A form of bedroom community — 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.

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of bedroom community
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