commuting

commutingnoun

• 1

  travel between home and workplace

  • 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 float about in the thin smoke of cigarettes'.
  • 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 established in Britain until the 1940s).
• 2

  travel by public transportation such as by jeepney

commutingadj

• 1

  Causing, or involved in commutation

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• commute