Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "dormitory town".
Essentially it was nothing more than a dormitory town for the refineries and processing plants that produced complex organic molecules that were used by Kinabica's medical and chemical industries—.
Some day, who knows, we'll have a grand new dormitory town built on that land.
After some negotiation over a radio channel it agreed to open three of its domes to humans, who would use the space primarily as a dormitory town for the astroengineering companies.
Presently they were passing through mile after mile of dormitory town, in heavier traffic.
In our dormitory town no club had a monopoly on support and, in any case, my new best friend, a Derby County fan like his father and uncle, was similarly isolated.
Its six lanes of traffic swing wide through the forest land of Virginia, brush the outskirts of the dormitory town of Alexandria, then cross the Potomac into Maryland.
Hehad a point, but the thing could just as easily be turned theother way round: it was easier to play with thoughts andideas when I was roaming at will on the Hardanger plateauthan pacing about hour after hour between four walls, likesome dormitory town detainee.
I made my way out of the area altogether, back into the narrow, huddled streets of the port dormitory town.