commute
noun
- travel a distance from one's home to a place of work or education
verb
- make a law sentence more lenient
- go back and forth to/from work
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kəˈmjuːt/ / /kəˈmjut/ / /kəˈmjʉːt/
noun
Etymology: From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.
- A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.
“If you're hearing me then it means your ego has been commuted successfully into this CAT with zero errors. Only one warning by the way: it may take a moment to acclimatize to being a bodyless ego, but try not to worry too much.”
“PS: The average commute time in the freewayless City of Vancouver is 27 minutes, while outside of the City of Vancouver the average commute time is 31 minutes.”
- The route, time or distance of that journey.
verb
Etymology: From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.
- To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
“I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.”
“My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay £65 per night for a single room.”
- To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
- To journey, to make a journey
“By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.”