commute

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com·mute1 /kəˈmjuːt/ verb

1 [intransitiveI]TRAVEL to regularly travel a long distance to get to work 長途上下班，通勤

commute to/from/between

Jim commutes to Manhattan every day.

吉姆每天長途乘車到曼哈頓上班。

► see thesaurus at travel

2 commute a sentence (to something) technical to change the punishment given to a criminal to one that is less severe 減刑（到…）

Baldry’s 20-year prison sentence was commuted to three years.

鮑德裏二十年的刑期被減至三年。

3 commute something for/into something technicalEXCHANGE to exchange one thing, especially one kind of payment, for another 把某物改換爲另一物〔尤指支付方式〕

He commuted his pension for a lump sum.

他把退休金改爲一次領清。

Examples from the Corpus

commute• One of my busboys commutes from a rented house in Fairfield.• Kendall commutes into the city every day from Waltham.• Some commute long distances while others work close to home.• I don't mind commuting on the train as long as I have a good book to read.• Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office.• He had moved to Penzance in Cornwall, commuting to London for work.• With such equipment, staff could work from home instead of commuting to offices.

commute to/from/between• Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office.• Her batting average there: five stays of execution, one commuted to life in prison, and two men freed completely.• In particular, many people have moved to the Wirral peninsula and they commute to Liverpool through the Mersey tunnel or by ferry.• With such equipment, staff could work from home instead of commuting to offices.• The rules to make it through the obstacle course of a day's commute to school are carefully laid out.• The nearly completed four-lane route will help shorten the commute to the remote site, roughly 24 miles northeast of downtown.• I have to complete my contract and teach for a semester, which means commuting to upstate New York every week.• I lived in Boston and commuted to Worcester.

commute2 noun [countableC usually singular]

TRAVELthe journey to work every day 每天上班的路程

My morning commute takes 45 minutes.

我早上上班路程要花45分鐘。

► see thesaurus at journey

Examples from the Corpus

commute• Now, my father has a tiring job, a long commute, and a house to rehabilitate besides.• Traffic congestion during peak commute hours is terrible.

From Longman Business Dictionary

commutecom·mute /kəˈmjuːt/ verb [intransitiveI]

TRAVELto regularly travel a long distance for your work

commute between

a businessman who commutes between Northern Ireland and Hong Kong

—commute noun [countableC usually singular]

He got fed up with the daily commute into London.

—commuter noun [countableC]

British Rail networks carrying commuters into London

Origin commute1

(1400-1500) Latin commutare “to exchange, change”, from com- ( → COM-) + mutare “to change”

com·mute1 verbcommute2 noun

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