bedroom communityˈbedroom comˌmunity (also ˈbedroom ˌsuburb) noun [countable] American EnglishExamples
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In Danville, California, the bedroom community east of Oakland where they lived, they could play outdoors all year round.
a place where people live but that does not have many businesses, so that people have to go to another town or city to workSYN dormitory town British English