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Commuting   /kəmjˈutɪŋ/   Listen
Commuting

noun
1.
The travel of a commuter.  Synonym: commutation.


Commute

verb
(past & past part. commuted; pres. part. commuting)
1.
Exchange positions without a change in value.  Synonym: transpose.
2.
Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home.
3.
Change the order or arrangement of.  Synonyms: permute, transpose.
4.
Exchange a penalty for a less severe one.  Synonyms: convert, exchange.
5.
Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.  Synonyms: change, convert, exchange.  "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"



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"Commuting" Quotes from Famous Books



... restaurant conducted the business of the day down-town, but had their actual living quarters in New York's remoter fastnesses,—Brooklyn, the Bronx or Harlem. Nancy was satisfied that the bulk of her patronage should be the commuting and cliff dwelling contingent of Manhattanites,—indeed it was the sort of patronage that from the beginning she had intended to ...
— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley
... fellow-creature from drowning can be deemed to be necessarily right by none but uncompromising opponents of capital punishment. Most others will be disposed to doubt its having been a sufficient reason for commuting the sentence of death passed upon the murderer of Dhuleep Sing's gamekeeper, that, owing to physical malformation, hanging might perhaps have given him more than ordinary pain in the neck, or perhaps have prolonged the pleasure which, according to the select few qualified to speak from experience, ...
— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton
... thirty-six, to various persons for pay-checks that the royal treasury owes them as pay for serving your Majesty, and for other reasons, by virtue of my decrees regarding the one-third, the owners voluntarily commuting to his Majesty the other two-thirds, in consideration of the needs and debt of the royal estate in these said islands. The certification shall be set forth in detail with the greatest clearness, together with the amount of the two-thirds of ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Various
... familiar all over the world. Even in Mexico, where human sacrifices and ritual cannibalism were daily events, Quetzalcoatl was credited with commuting human sacrifices for blood drawn from the bodies of the religious. In this one matter even the most conservative creeds and the faiths most opposed to change sometimes ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang
... which the Collinses enjoyed was shared by about sixty neighbors who formed the wealthy colony of Delmore Park, a small suburb within easy motoring and commuting distance of New York. The park itself was an attractive inclosure of some three hundred acres, surrounded by a fence of high iron palings and laid out so as to give the impression from within of a natural forest, while, as a matter of fact, ...
— The Substitute Prisoner • Max Marcin


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