commuter
Other forms: commuters
A commuter is someone who has a lengthy trip to work, usually from a suburb to a city.
Some people are lucky enough to work at home or live very close to where they work. Others are commuters: commuters need to commute — travel — to work. Being a commuter isn't easy, because it might take anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours to get from home to work and then back again, both times during rush hour. Usually, a commuter lives in the suburbs and commutes to the city, where many jobs are.
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someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a citytypes:straphangera commuter who uses public transportation
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a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to anothersynonyms: commuter traintype of:passenger traina train that carries passengers
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Vocabulary lists containing commuter
Alex loves planes and dreams of getting a dog for his birthday. But September 11th, 2001—Alex's 11th birthday—becomes a day when he will experience both tragedy and hope.
On an eighth-grade civics class trip from Miami to Washington, D.C., Wyatt Palmer and his best friend decide to act upon their suspicion that there will be an attack on the White House.