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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sizeable commercial center offering a mixture of employment, shopping, and entertainment and serving a primarily suburban area.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, title of a 1991 book by American writer Joel Garreau.]

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