I commute to work for an hour.
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Commute
//kəˈmjuːt//
Synonyms for "commute" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
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14 entriesetymologically related_to
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11 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
80 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- заменям verb (to put or substitute something else in place of)
- разменям verb (to put or substitute something else in place of)
Catalan
3 entries- commutar verb (legal: to reduce a sentence)
- commutar verb (to put or substitute something else in place of)
- commutar verb (math: to be commutative)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 通勤 verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Danish
2 entries- kommutere verb (math: to be commutative)
- pendle verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Dutch
1 entries- pendelen verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Finnish
4 entries- työmatka noun (route)
- työmatka noun (distance)
- kommutoida verb (math: to be commutative)
- käydä töissä verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
French
3 entries- trajet noun (route)
- commuter verb (math: to be commutative)
- faire la navette verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
German
4 entries- Arbeitsweg noun (route)
- Pendlerstrecke noun (route)
- Pendlerstrecke noun (distance)
- ablösen verb (finance: to pay out the lump-sum present value)
Hungarian
3 entries- ingázik verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
- kommutál verb (math: to be commutative)
- pendlizik verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Italian
2 entries- commutare verb (math: to be commutative)
- fare il pendolare verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Japanese
2 entries- 通う verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
- 通勤する verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Korean
2 entries- 통근하다 verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
- 통하다 verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- pendle verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- pendle verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Polish
1 entries- dojeżdżać do pracy verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Portuguese
2 entries- comutar verb (math: to be commutative)
- fazer a jornada (de trabalho) verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Romanian
1 entries- face naveta verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Russian
3 entries- е́здить verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
- коммутировать verb (math: to be commutative)
- смягчать наказание verb (legal: to reduce a sentence)
Spanish
4 entries- distancia pendular noun (distance)
- ruta al y del trabajo noun (route)
- ruta pendular noun (route)
- amnistiar verb (legal: to reduce a sentence)
Swedish
3 entries- pendling noun (route)
- kommutera verb (math: to be commutative)
- pendla verb (to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
I have to commute all the way from a distant suburb.
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Say that work is 8 hours, it feels like the three hour commute time is also work but you don't get any money for it. What a waste.
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Do you commute to school by bus?
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