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Travel back and forth to work
Answer for the clue "Travel back and forth to work ", 7 letters:
commute
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to change, transform," from Latin commutare "to often change, to change altogether," from com- , intensive prefix (see com- ), + mutare "to change" (see mutable ). Sense of "make less severe" is 1630s. Sense of "go back and forth to work" is ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. transpose and remain equal in value; "These operators commute with each other" [syn: transpose ] travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home [syn: travel back and forth ] change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commute \Com*mute"\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commuted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Commuting .] [L. commutare, -mutatum; com- + mutare to change. See Mutation .] 1. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, ...
Usage examples of commute.
Muravieff has performed in achieving a level of quality education for the inmates at Hiland Mountain Correctional Facility, and because he feels she has contributed substantially to the lowest rate of recidivism for a corrections facility in the state and one of the lowest rates in the nation, because Victoria Bannister Muravieff has set a standard for community service under the most difficult of conditions, with a selfless disregard for her own situation and a commitment to the rehabilitation of people the rest of us have given up on long ago, the governor has decided to commute her sentence to time served.
He joined the Company himself as an apprentice at Cartwright in 1898 and spent six years commuting between Rigolet and North West River, the wilderness posts once managed by Donald Smith.
Today, an average of 25,000 people use the trains for round-trip commutes to work, shopping and special events.
Shortly, he was aboard a thermosealed interbuilding commute car, on his way to downtown New York City and P.
Soon after driving by his own home, commercial zoning replaced residential property, followed by mini-farms, tracts of five to twenty acres owned by the more successful retailers in town and some commuting professionals out of Tyler.
The location would mean a ten-mile commute for Celia on the days she went to Felding-Roth at Boonton, but since most of her sales calls were in other parts of New Jersey, the distance was not important.
Judy would have thought these towns were way too far up the Hudson for people to live there and commute to work in Manhattan.
People commute to London from there now, and, of course, to other towns.
It must once have been really rural, but I should think most of the inhabitants commute now.
Finally the Board recommended that the governor not commute the sentences of the two Purple gangsters.
Governor Swainson decided to commute the sentence of Phil Keywell and several other lifer convicts as one of his last acts in office.
Okay, they made commuting hell and you had to live your life by the ferry schedule to get to and from the islands in the Sound.
While the rest of the world carries onmillions of people jostling on city streets, dolphins panicking in tuna nets, elephants falling to the poachers' spray of machine gun fire, hands raised in the stock exchanges of Paris, New York, Tokyo, students in ten thousand classrooms listening, lovers writhing, merchants hawking, insects rubbingwhile all of my friends go about their day, and presidents sign bills into law, and consumers consume, and commuters commute.
Similar to the food carts of fifty years earlier, most of the new Castles were built within sight of a factory or in an otherwise industrialized area, whereas White Tower built most of its restaurants along the trolley lines frequented by commuting workers.
It was the chicest, most exclusive world in the planetary system, handy for commuting to other planets, yet far enough away from the riff-raff to be ideal for the mega-rich.