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# commuting

verb form (commute, commutes, commuted, commuting); noun (commuting, uncountable)

«commuting» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Commuting is travelling the same way regularly between home and work or school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/#m1)
2. (law) Commuting a punishment is making it less severe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/#m2)
3. (maths) Operations that commute give the same answer in either order. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/#m3)

### In the lessons

Adult life (Dad's commuting by train), maths (adding commutes: 3 + 5 = 5 + 3), news about traffic and rush hour.

### Examples

- Mum spends an hour commuting each day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/#x1)
- Commuting by bike keeps Dad fit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/#x2)
- The trains are full of people commuting to the city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/#x3)
- Commuting is tiring when the roads are busy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/#x4)
- Addition and multiplication are commuting operations. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/#x5)
- He is commuting from the country to London. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/#x6)

### Note

Person: commuter. In maths the commutative law: a + b = b + a and a × b = b × a, but subtraction and division do not commute (5 − 3 is not 3 − 5). In journey problems: a commute counts twice a day, there and back.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «commuting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commuting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«commuting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/commuting.html) on Mova free.