commute
to travel between work and home
TRANSLATION
commute = zwischen der Arbeit und dem Zuhause pendeln --- GOOGLE INDEX commute: approximately 2,300,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The quickest COMMUTE. Tram, car, bike or bus?
(BBC - News Headline)
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Although Dubai traffic may have eased, the dusty desert highway that links the city to its wealthy neighbour, Abu Dhabi, is crammed each day as Dubai residents COMMUTE to the capital for work.
(The Guardian Online)
(BBC - News Headline)
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Although Dubai traffic may have eased, the dusty desert highway that links the city to its wealthy neighbour, Abu Dhabi, is crammed each day as Dubai residents COMMUTE to the capital for work.
(The Guardian Online)
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commute
verb and noun
- to make the same journey regularly between work and home
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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JOKE
Joe came home from his first commute to his new job in the city. His wife noticed that he didn't look well and asked, "Honey, are you feeling all right?"
"Not really," said Joe. "I’m feeling sick from sitting backward on the train."
"Poor dear," said his wife. "Why didn’t you ask the person sitting across from you to switch seats for a while?"
"I couldn’t," replied Joe, "no one was sitting there."
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"To pass the time while commuting, I listen to audio books."
verb and noun
- to make the same journey regularly between work and home
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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JOKE
Joe came home from his first commute to his new job in the city. His wife noticed that he didn't look well and asked, "Honey, are you feeling all right?"
"Not really," said Joe. "I’m feeling sick from sitting backward on the train."
"Poor dear," said his wife. "Why didn’t you ask the person sitting across from you to switch seats for a while?"
"I couldn’t," replied Joe, "no one was sitting there."
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"To pass the time while commuting, I listen to audio books."
