commute
noun/kəˈmjuːt/
/kəˈmjuːt/
- the journey that a person makes when they commute to work
- a two-hour commute into downtown Washington
- I have only a short commute to work.
- Today most commutes are not suburb to city to suburb but from one suburb to another.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘interchange (two things)’): from Latin commutare, from com- ‘altogether’ + mutare ‘to change’. Sense (1) originally meant to buy and use a commutation ticket, the US term for a season ticket (because the daily fare is commuted to a single payment).Want to learn more?
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