commute
verb /kəˈmjuːt/
/kəˈmjuːt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they commute | /kəˈmjuːt/ /kəˈmjuːt/ |
| he / she / it commutes | /kəˈmjuːts/ /kəˈmjuːts/ |
| past simple commuted | /kəˈmjuːtɪd/ /kəˈmjuːtɪd/ |
| past participle commuted | /kəˈmjuːtɪd/ /kəˈmjuːtɪd/ |
| -ing form commuting | /kəˈmjuːtɪŋ/ /kəˈmjuːtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to travel regularly by bus, train, car, etc. between your place of work and your home
- commute (from A) (to B) She commutes from Oxford to London every day.
- She commutes from Sunset Park to Manhattan each morning.
- commute between A and B He spent that year commuting between New York and Chicago.
- I live within commuting distance of Dublin.
- commute something People are prepared to commute long distances if they are desperate for work.
Wordfinder- accelerate
- brake
- car
- commute
- driving
- licence
- motorist
- road
- road tax
- traffic
Wordfinder- commute
- departure
- destination
- excursion
- expedition
- itinerary
- journey
- pilgrimage
- safari
- travel
Culture commutingcommutingCommuting is the practice of travelling to a town or city to work each day, and then travelling home again in the evening. The word commuting comes from commutation ticket, a US ticket for repeated journeys, called a season ticket in Britain. Regular travellers are called commuters.The US has many commuters. A few, mostly on the East Coast, commute by train or subway, but most depend on the car. Some leave home very early to avoid the traffic jams, and sleep in their cars until their office opens. Many people accept a long trip to work so that they can live in quiet bedroom communities away from the city.Millions of people in Britain commute by car or train. Some spend two or three hours a day travelling, so that they and their families can live in suburbia or in the countryside. Cities are surrounded by commuter belts. Part of the commuter belt around London is called the stockbroker belt because it contains houses where rich business people live. Some places are known as dormitory towns (NAmE bedroom community), because people sleep there but take little part in local activities.Most commuters travel to and from work at the same time, causing the morning and evening rush hours, when buses and trains are crowded and there are traffic jams on the roads. Commuters on trains usually spend their journey reading, sleeping or using their computers or mobile phones. Increasing numbers of people now work at home some days of the week, linked to their offices by computer, a practice called telecommuting or teleworking.Cities in both Britain and the US are trying to reduce the number of cars coming into town each day. Some companies encourage car pooling (called car sharing in Britain), an arrangement for people who live and work near each other to travel together. Some US cities have a public service that helps such people to contact each other, and parts of the road are reserved for car-pool vehicles. But cars and fuel are cheap in the US, and many people prefer to drive alone because it gives them more freedom. Many cities have park-and-ride schemes, car parks on the edge of the city from which buses take drivers into the centre. In Britain in 2002 a system of congestion charging was introduced in Durham to make people who drive into the city centre pay a congestion charge (= pay money to drive into the city centre). A similar system was introduced in London in 2003.Topics Transport by bus and trainb1, Transport by car or lorryb1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- daily
- every day
- regularly
- …
- between
- from
- to
- …
- [transitive] commute something (to something) (law) to replace one punishment with another that is less severe
- The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
- [transitive] commute something (for/into/to something) (finance) to exchange one form of payment, for something else
- The capital invested will be commuted to a loan.
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).