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commute
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commute something into something
to change something into something. No one, as it turns out, can commute lead into gold. I had hoped to commute this argument into a sensible discussion, but it is hopeless.

commute between places

to travel between the place where one works and the place where one lives. I have to commute between Chicago and Detroit every week. Mary has commuted between New York City and New Jersey for years.
See also: place

commute from some place

to travel to work from some place. I commute from way out in the country. Betty commutes from only a few miles away and will be here very soon.
See also: place, some


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Mark-Taylor offered a $1,000 rent discount to prospective residents who cut their commutes by moving to a Mark-Taylor community in April.
The typical worker commutes 35 minutes one way and uses a car to get to work.
Two commutes a day, ten a week, forty a month, about 440 times a year.
 
 
 
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