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dormitory suburb

noun

  1. a suburb occupied mainly by the homes of commuters.


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Origin of dormitory suburb1

First recorded in 1945–50
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These days it is a dormitory suburb of Glasgow and the air is clear but a century ago the town was ablaze with heavy industry.

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The town, built in the late 1960s as a dormitory suburb for electricity workers, had wide streets and a slender, anodised statue rising 30 metres out of the ground.

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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Research institutes were introduced around Novye Cheryomushki metro station in the 1960s to try to avoid it becoming a ‘dormitory suburb’.

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The findings released on Friday found the officers engaged in a "pattern of intimidation and harassment" of African-Americans who participate in the federally funded Section 8 affordable housing program in the area, which is a dormitory suburb of Los Angeles.

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Horton was born in Gainesville, Florida, orphaned before her first birthday and brought up in foster care in Inkster, a dormitory suburb for black workers at Detroit's Ford factories.

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