COMMUTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commuting mean? 

• COMMUTING (noun)
  The noun COMMUTING has 1 sense:

1. the travel of a commuter

  Familiarity information: COMMUTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMUTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The travel of a commuter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

commutation; commuting

Hypernyms ("commuting" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Derivation:

commute (travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home)

 Context examples 

I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your new home may be near your work too, cutting down on commuting time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The study is the first to assess the impact of physical activity on childhood overweight and obesity levels for primary schoolchildren by simultaneously relating two of the main types of extracurricular physical activity: daily commuting to school and frequency of participation in sport.

(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)

Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-at-ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn't know—though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)