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commuting en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Causing, or involved in commutation

commuting en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) travel between home and workplace
   • It was cheaper to build both railways and suburbs to the south, and commuting - which Charles Pearson called 'oscillating' - began between the village of Greenwich and London Bridge. (The term 'commuting' is from America, and did not become established in Britain until the 1940s). 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 12–13:
   • The poet Geoffrey Grigson added an atmospheric 1950s gloss on these bizarre commutings [of seeds]: 'between Swindon and London you may see them often enough during the summer, the sunlight through the carriage window catching them as they float about in the thin smoke of cigarettes'. 2010, Richard Mabey, Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants, page 140:
2. (Philippines, uncountable, usually) travel by public transportation such as by jeepney

Forms

Deriveds

anticommuting · noncommuting · cybercommuting · telecommuting · intercommuting

Relateds

commuter

Translations (13)

es pendularismo (travel between home and workplace) · sv arbetsresa (travel between home and workplace) · fr trajet (travel between home and workplace) · es conmutaje (travel between home and workplace) · es tránsito pendular (travel between home and workplace) · cs dojíždění (travel between home and workplace) · sv pendling (travel between home and workplace) · de Pendeln (travel between home and workplace) · sv pendeltrafik (travel between home and workplace) · hu ingázás (travel between home and workplace) · fi työmatka (travel between home and workplace) · es pendulación (travel between home and workplace) · fr trajet maison-travail (travel between home and workplace)

commuting en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of commute
   form of commute