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commuter belts

commuter belts is the plural of commuter belt.

Meaning of commuter belt

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...

Questions about commuter belts

What is commuter belts the plural of?
Commuter belts is the plural of commuter belt.

Words near commuter belts in the dictionary

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

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