0 a place from which many people travel in order to work in a bigger town or city
1 a place where many people who work in a bigger town or city live:
Originally a dormitory town for Liverpool merchants, its popularity increased as part of the fashionable seaside resort of New Brighton.
First, we are all agreed that we do not want dormitory towns.
Many large cities or conurbations are surrounded by commuter belts, also known as metropolitan areas, commuter towns, dormitory towns, or bedroom communities.
For this reason, they are also called dormitory towns, bedroom communities, or commuter towns.
It will, in effect, they say, in the course of time create a dormitory town.
What has been a thriving industrially-based city will become a dormitory town which everyone leaves to go to work.
Does he want the new town to become a dormitory town and eventually a slum or a balanced community?
It will make us a vast dormitory town and make two landowners very rich.
It is a primarily rural residential town that has dormitory town status.
