commuter belt

Definition

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."