gated community

noun [U] mainly US

Definition

› a group of houses surrounded by fences or walls, that can only be entered by the people who live there: The neighborhood is a gated community with a security guard to protect residents from intruders.

(Definition of gated community noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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