commute

Universal Words verb, noun verb 1 [V] to travel regularly by bus, train, car, etc. between your place of work and your home: She commutes from Oxford to London every day. * He spent that year commuting between New York and Chicago. * I live within commuting distance of Dublin. * [VN] People are prepared to commute long distances if they are desperate for work. 2 [VN] ~ sth (to sth) (law) to replace one punishment with another that is less severe: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. 3 [VN] ~ sth (for / into sth) (finance) to exchange one form of payment, for sth else noun (especially AmE) the journey that a person makes when they commute to work: a two-hour commute into downtown Washington * I have only a short commute to work. * I plan my day's work during the morning commute. * Today most commutes are not suburb to city to suburb but from one suburb to another.