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commuter belt

commuter belt noun: a zone surrounding a metropolitan area or city from which commuters travel to the area or city to work.

Noun

commuter belt (plural commuter belts)

  1. (attributive, often) A zone surrounding a metropolitan area or city from which commuters travel to the area or city to work.
    • Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily...
    • More money for the NHS; vaccines will save us; life in commuter-belt England will continue much as it always has.2021 September 16, Gaby Hinsliff, “Johnson is reshuffling away from culture wars to firm up the commuter belt”, in The Guardian

Forms of commuter belt

pluralcommuter belts

Questions about commuter belt

What does commuter belt mean?
Commuter belt means a zone surrounding a metropolitan area or city from which commuters travel to the area or city to work.
What part of speech is commuter belt?
Commuter belt is a noun.
What is the plural of commuter belt?
The plural of commuter belt is commuter belts.

Words near commuter belt in the dictionary

  1. commutatorless
  2. commutators
  3. commute
  4. commuted
  5. commuter
  6. commuter belt
  7. commuter belts
  8. commuter bus
  9. commuter buses
  10. commuter busses
  11. commuter marriage

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