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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

commute


(v) - When you commute, you regularly travel, usually a long distance, to get back and forth to and from work. To commute can also mean to exchange one thing, especially one kind of payment, for another.
  • Synonyms: travel, trade, exchange, go back and forth, transfer
  • Antonyms: keep, stay
  • Etymology: Mid-15th Century Latin, from com- meaning "with" + mutare meaning "to change." The sense of this word as "go back and forth to work" came from 1889.
  • Morphology: commuter, commutative
  • Example: Some people who work in big cities choose to live further away, and commute to work by bus or train everyday.


2 comments:

  1. Shelby says,my commute is by car because I live by the RedDoor.

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  2. Jordyn says ,my dad has to commute to pick up me and my sister for soccer pactice.

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