commuter belt
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A zone surrounding a metropolitan area or city from which commuters travel to the area or city to work.
Example Sentences
- "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."