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bedroom community
noun
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▪ In Danville, California, the bedroom community east of Oakland where they lived, they could play outdoors all year round.
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bedroom community

n. An urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.

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bedroom community

n. a community where many commuters live

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Bedroom Community
''For the concept of a town whose residents work elsewhere, often called a bedroom community, see commuter town.''

Bedroom Community is an Icelandic record label/collective which was created in 2006 by producer Valgeir Sigurðsson, alongside fellow artists Nico Muhly and Ben Frost, later adding more artists to the roster. Based on the outskirts of Reykjavík, Iceland, Bedroom Community is also the home of Greenhouse Studios.

Bedroom Community was described by Drowned in Sound as "one of the best guarantors of quality, even importance, out there" known for its "emotionally powerful music".

In 2011, Pierre-Alain Giraud made a documentary film called Everything Everywhere All The Time, which follows Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson on their collective tour, showcasing the music they’ve collaborated on and released individually under the Bedroom Community umbrella. The documentary was premiered at the Reykjavík International Film Festival, followed by screenings at CPH:DOX, Iceland Airwaves and more.

Usage examples of "bedroom community".

Rather than being only a bedroom community for Washington, DC, Simon visualized a town where citizens could enjoy recreation, entertainment, shopping, and employment.

In the days leading up to the September 11 attacks, a great deal of the planning took place right under NSA's giant ear, in the agency's bedroom community of Laurel.

Now the Valley has industry of its own (if it didn't, I wouldn't have had to worry about the toxic spell dump, after all), but in large measure it's still a bedroom community for the rest of Angels City: lots of houses, lots of kids, lots of schools.

Graham Humberly's house sprawled over the top of a hill in Palos Verdes, a posh bedroom community of Los Angeles.

Lives in a posh house in Palos Verde, a bedroom community of Los Angeles.

There isn't any heavy industry -I it's mostly a bedroom community for the nearby universitv.

It took until Tuesday to figure out where the bedroom community was located and which train line went there, because an ongoing budget crisis kept the public libraries closed on Sunday and Monday.

It was a few miles south of Cape Canaveral, in the NASA bedroom community of Cocoa Beach.

Pacing this brightly lit area for what seemed hours, worried about his friend, preoccupied with a dozen other trains of thought, he was vaguely aware that he'd been wondering, all along, why a corridor should be forty meters wider than the suburban streets of Walton Beach, the Florida-panhandle bedroom community for nearby Humphrey Field (also known as Engels Auxiliary #9) where he and his family had lived the last six years.