MEANING
A town whose residents largely travel elsewhere for work, with comparatively limited local employment.
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- a dormitory town
- commuter life
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The dormitory town emptied before the shops opened.
At evening, the dormitory town filled with travelers from the same distant junction.
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- dormitory town
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular dormitory town; plural dormitory towns. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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