noun
commute
CEFR B2
a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work
In a sentence
Six example sentences with commute, each labelled with its topic.
Her commute crosses two rivers and a state line, so she leaves home before six every weekday morning.
Travel
He turned the commute into training, cycling eleven miles to the office and eleven home again five days a week.
Fitness
Cities that shortened the average commute saw workers accept lower wages, because the hours saved were worth more than the difference.
Economics
The planners' target was a commute under twenty minutes, so every new district sits on a tram line.
Architecture
Studies find a long commute erodes wellbeing more than a pay cut of the same size would.
Psychology
The founders chose the office to keep every engineer's commute under half an hour by bicycle.
Startups
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