bedroom community
noun
: a small community that has no major industries and that is lived in by people who go to another town or city to work
They live in a bedroom community just outside of the city.
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Miramar will have at least two new faces on its five-member commission after Tuesday’s at-large election — possibly three if the lone incumbent in the race is unseated.
Miramar, a bedroom community in southwest Broward County founded in 1955, faces many challenges ahead.
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Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
In South Miami, Trump got just a third of the vote in 2020 but won 43% of the bedroom community’s votes on Tuesday.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Sunland Park – a quiet bedroom community east of sprawling El Paso, Texas – was the busiest spot in Border Patrol's El Paso Sector for years.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
An area that’s starting to worry people is West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, which is becoming a bedroom community for people who work in the Greater Washington, D.C., area.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
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Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
In South Miami, Trump got just a third of the vote in 2020 but won 43% of the bedroom community’s votes on Tuesday.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Sunland Park – a quiet bedroom community east of sprawling El Paso, Texas – was the busiest spot in Border Patrol's El Paso Sector for years.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
An area that’s starting to worry people is West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, which is becoming a bedroom community for people who work in the Greater Washington, D.C., area.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
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“Bedroom community.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedroom%20community. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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