noun
a wealthy residential suburb
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
• Hypernyms: ↑suburb, ↑suburbia, ↑suburban area
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an area outside a large city, where many rich people live
Culture:
Many of the people who live in the stockbroker belt work in the city as highly paid professional people, e.g. stockbrokers (= people who buy and sell shares in companies on behalf of other people). Most people think of the typical stockbroker belt as ↑Surrey, south-west of London, but the phrase can be used to refer to any expensive area outside a city
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They bought a very large detached house in the heart of the stockbroker belt.Useful english dictionary. 2012.