commuting

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,130 of 15,258leans written

Commuting is travelling regularly between home and work. Daily commuting, commuting by bike, the commuting hours.

The average commute in Britain is around an hour a day both ways, and studies keep finding it the least enjoyable part of the day. Commuting by bike is the exception people report as the one journey they look forward to.

Definitions of commuting

1nouncommutingTravelling regularly between home and work.B1+
“She hated commuting, so she found a job she could walk to.”

commuting is a travelling.

Where it comes from

Latin
commūtō
English
commute
English, today
commuting

commute Borrowed from Latin commūtō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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commuting in the wild

The modes of travel, time taken and distance traveled in commuting varies widely across the globe.
Commuting
In middle-income countries, motorcycle commuting is very common.
Commuting
Carpool commuting is more popular for people who work in places with more jobs nearby, and who live in places with higher residential densities.
Carpool
Mixed-mode commuting is often used to combine the strengths (and offset the weaknesses) of various transportation options.
Intermodal passenger transport
Slugging, also known as casual carpooling and flexible carpooling, is the practice of forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of hitchhiking.
Slugging

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Related words

the commūtō family

commute commuter commuting

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