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Meaning of "commuter belt" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMMUTER BELT

commuter belt  [kəˈmjuːtə bɛlt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMUTER BELT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Commuter belt is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMMUTER BELT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

commuter belt

Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or metro, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, cities, exurbs, counties, districts, and even states. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions. Metropolitan areas include one or more urban areas, as well as satellite cities, towns and intervening rural areas that are socio-economically tied to the urban core, typically measured by commuting patterns.

Definition of commuter belt in the English dictionary

The definition of commuter belt in the dictionary is the commuter belt the area surrounding a city where commuters live.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMMUTER BELT


belt
bɛlt
celt
sɛlt
dealt
dɛlt
delt
dɛlt
felt
fɛlt
heartfelt
ˈhɑːtˌfɛlt
Lagerfeld
ˈlɑːɡəˌfɛlt
melt
mɛlt
pelt
pɛlt
Roosevelt
ˈrəʊzəˌvɛlt
smelt
smɛlt
snowbelt
ˈsnəʊbɛlt
spelt
spɛlt
Sunbelt
ˈsʌnˌbɛlt
svelte
svɛlt
umwelt
ˈʊmvɛlt
unbelt
ʌnˈbɛlt
veld
fɛlt
waistbelt
ˈweɪstˌbɛlt
welt
wɛlt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMMUTER BELT

communization
communize
commutability
commutable
commutableness
commutate
commutation
commutation ticket
commutative
commutatively
commutativity
commutator
commute
commuter
commuter line
commuter marriage
commuter town
commuter-belt
commuting
commutual

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMMUTER BELT

asteroid belt
below the belt
below-the-belt
black belt
brown belt
cartridge belt
chastity belt
conveyor belt
endless belt
fan belt
fold-and-thrust belt
garter belt
green belt
Kuiper belt
lap and shoulder belt
safety belt
seat belt
suspender belt
sword belt
the black belt
tighten one´s belt

Synonyms and antonyms of commuter belt in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «commuter belt» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMMUTER BELT

Find out the translation of commuter belt to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of commuter belt from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «commuter belt» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

通勤者居住带
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

periferia
570 millions of speakers

English

commuter belt
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कम्यूटर बेल्ट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حزام ركاب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пригородные пояса
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

área metropolitana
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কম্যুটার বেল্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grande banlieue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tali pinggang komuter
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

großstädtischer Einzugsbereich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ベッドタウン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

통근권
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sabuk komuter
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vành đai đi lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பரிமாற்ற பெல்ட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कम्युटर बेल्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Banliyö bandı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

periferia dei pendolari
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pas podmiejskich
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

приміські пояси
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

centură de navetiști
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζώνη μετακινούμενος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pendelaar gordel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pendlings
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pendlerbelte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of commuter belt

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMUTER BELT»

The term «commuter belt» is normally little used and occupies the 117.002 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMUTER BELT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «commuter belt» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «commuter belt» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about commuter belt

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMUTER BELT»

Discover the use of commuter belt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to commuter belt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
London Commuter Belt
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The London commuter belt is the metropolitan area surrounding London, England from which it is practical to commute to work in the capital.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
2
The Rural-urban Fringe in Canada: Conflict and Controversy
Hugh Millward Introduction Most Canadian cities are surrounded by an extensive commuter belt, which acts as a dormitory zone for large numbers of urban workers and their families. According to Bryant, Russwurm, and McLellan (1982,  ...
Kenneth B. Beesley, 2010
3
The Urban World: Processes and Issues
The suburbanisation of settlements in the commuter belt tends to be greatest where access to the city is best. That means along railways, motorways and main roads. In these, the scale of the suburbanisation can be so great as to completely  ...
M. E. Witherick, 1999
4
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
Table 8.7 Proportion of households with a high PCS1 according to the place of residence of their reference person in 1990 and 19991 Place ofresidence in 1999 City centre Suburbs Commuter belt Total Place of residence in 1990 City centre ...
Michael Hibbard, Robert Freestone, Tore Øivin Sager, 2013
5
Ethnicity and Integration
... Industrial legacy –2.26 The commuter belt 2.00 Multicultural inner London – 1.66 Thriving outer London 1.72 Black ethnic boroughs –1.18 Historic cities 1.45 POSA Rural extremes 4.92 Black ethnic boroughs –1.51 Ageing coastal extremities ...
John Stillwell, Maarten van Ham, 2010
6
Megacities: Exploring a Sustainable Future
They failed in that respect when the commuter belt moved out to meet them. According to the 1966 Census, Thomas (1969) was able to show that those garden cities remained much more self-contained than equivalent older towns at similar ...
Steef Buijs, Wendy Tan, Devisari Tunas, 2010
7
Aberdeen, 1800-2000: A New History
The clear implication is that migrants came either very short or relatively long distances, but not from within the commuter belt itself because it too had become a receiving area for inward migration. The impact of counter-urbanisation was ...
W. Hamish Fraser, Clive Howard Lee, 2000
8
Cambridge Business English Dictionary
They caught a commuterflight to Boston in the morning. com'muter 'belt noun [C] mainly UK an area around a city where many people who work in the city live: In the London commuter belt, house prices rose by up to 15.6%. comp' /komp/ ...
Cambridge University Press, 2011
9
Does Religious Education Work?: A Multi-dimensional ...
Schools\SeggetScotland Academy White, Scottish, around 600 students Rural, some outer commuter belt Nondenominational Comprehensive Schools\ St Northern White, N. Irish, Rural Roman Catholic Grammar School Athanasius Ireland ...
James C. Conroy, Karen J. Wenell, David Lundie, 2013
10
Concept-Oriented Research and Development in Information ...
The Japan Railway Company has been operating trainsin the community of the Tokyo metropolitan commuter belt. Community membersexpect much more punctual, safe, frequent, fast, and longer operation fromthe public transportation ...
Kinji Mori, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMUTER BELT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term commuter belt is used in the context of the following news items.
1
MONEY: South east house prices rise in line with London - how …
... three months, London's commuter belt shot up the most. Traditional commuter hotspots like Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks were popular, ... «Kent News, Jul 15»
2
Housing market 'will grind to halt unless moving up the property …
The commuter belt surrounding London is increasingly popular with househunters, with towns like Watford, Reading, Aylesbury and Guildford ... «Rentman Software, Jul 15»
3
Rip-off rents hit the Home Counties as unaffordability contagion …
... up by international tenants and a surge in demand from companies relocating employees and their families to the London commuter belt. «Yahoo Finance UK, Jul 15»
4
Young people being squeezed out of Oxford as house prices climb …
I lived in commuter belt Hertfordshire. When I got married I couldn't afford to buy there and moved to rural Bedfordshire which we could afford. «The Oxford Times, Jul 15»
5
London house prices: commuter hotspots catch up with the capital
​House price rises in the commuter belt have caught up with increases in London, as buyers priced out of the capital create new property ... «Homes and Property, Jul 15»
6
Andrew Boff: London is too small
Extending London's borders to include the commuter belt could create a Southern Powerhouse worth £500 billion, which would make it the ... «Conservative Home, Jul 15»
7
Housing shortage is now putting the recovery at risk
... indexes double-digit annual increases of apartment costs in the greater Dublin area, which are now extending into commuter belt zones. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
8
Mind the gap: Commuter belt's confidence poses problem for the …
He has only partially achieved this, with London and its commuter belt being the main driver of economic optimism, leaving areas of the north ... «City A.M., Jun 15»
9
An alliance of 'colonels and crusties' may just have killed fracking in …
... it then applied to drill just outside Balcombe, right in the London commuter belt, causing well-informed and highly-publicised resistance. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
10
House prices in England and Wales stay static
House prices away from London and its commuter belt are climbing slowly, if at all. Photograph: Robert Harding/Rex Features/Shutterstock. «The Guardian, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Commuter belt [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/commuter-belt>. May 2024 ».
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