gated community

gated community (plural gated communities)

1. A residential area with restricted access, such as by a locked gate or guard post.

   Synonym: walled community

   • 2008, Sarah Blandy, “Secession or cohesion? Exploring the impact of gated communities”, in John Flint, David Robinson, editors, Community Cohesion in Crisis?: New Dimensions of Diversity and Difference, Policy Press, →ISBN, page 239:

     In physical terms, a gated community is a walled or fenced housing development to which public access is restricted and often guarded using CCTV and/or security personnel.

2. (by extension) Anything exclusive having restricted access.
   • 2023 November 6, Eliza Shapiro, “Inside the Private World the Richest New Yorkers Built for Themselves”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Everyday life is increasingly unaffordable for most New Yorkers, but a new class of private, members-only and concierge services is emerging as a kind of gated community within the city.

• walled garden

Borrowed from English gated community.

gated community n (indefinite plural gated communities)

1. gated community