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commuting

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verb
  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of commuteform-ofgerundparticiple

noun
  1. 1

    travel between home and workplaceuncountableusually

    • 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 f
    • 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
  2. 2

    travel by public transportation such as by jeepneyPhilippinesuncountableusually

adj
  1. 1

    Causing, or involved in commutationnot-comparable

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