suburbanization.

The development of suburbs or a movement of population and activity toward them.

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Words that belong together

• residential suburbanization
• suburbanization of employment

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Residential suburbanization changed the distance between homes and workplaces.

Suburbanization of employment reduced dependence on the old central business district.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: uncommon.