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commuting Meaning & Definition

What Does Commuting Mean?

As a verb, commuting means present participle and gerund of commute. As a noun, it means travel between home and workplace. As an adjective, it means Causing, or involved in commutation.

Commuting in Brief

Part of speechverb, noun, adjective
Synonymscommutation
Pluralcommutings

Commuting Definition (Verb)

  1. present participle and gerund of commute

Commuting as a Noun

  1. travel between home and workplace
  2. travel by public transportation such as by jeepney

Commuting as an Adjective

  1. Causing, or involved in commutation

Verb

  1. To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

    to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket

  2. Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

    A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.

Verb

  1. To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

    I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

  2. To journey, to make a journey

Synonyms of Commuting

Commuting synonyms and antonyms →

Commuting in a Sentence

to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket

A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.

I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

Word Forms & Grammar

commuting

commuting (usually uncountable, plural commutings)

commuting (not comparable)

Words That Rhyme With Commuting

Common Questions About Commuting

Is commuting a verb or a noun?

Commuting is mainly used as a verb, but it can also be used as a noun and an adjective.

What is another word for commuting?

Words with a similar meaning to commuting include commutation. See the full list of commuting synonyms and antonyms.

What is the plural of commuting?

The plural of commuting is commutings.

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