Meaning of commuter belt | Babel Free

Definitions

A zone surrounding a metropolitan area or city from which commuters travel to the area or city to work.

Examples

“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.”

“More money for the NHS; vaccines will save us; life in commuter-belt England will continue much as it always has.”

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