COMMUTE


Meaning of COMMUTE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kəmju:t ]

( commutes, commuting, commuted)

1.

If you commute , you travel a long distance every day between your home and your place of work.

Mike commutes to London every day...

McLaren began commuting between Paris and London...

He’s going to commute.

VERB : V to/from n , V between n and n , V

• com‧mut‧er

(commuters)

The number of commuters to London has dropped by 100,000.

...a commuter train.

N-COUNT

2.

A commute is the journey that you make when you commute. ( mainly AM )

The average Los Angeles commute is over 60 miles a day.

N-COUNT

3.

If a death sentence or prison sentence is commuted to a less serious punishment, it is changed to that punishment.

His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment...

Prison sentences have been commuted.

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed to n , be V-ed

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