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commuter
/ kəˈmjuːtə /
noun
- a person who travels to work over an appreciable distance, usually from the suburbs to the centre of a city
- ( as modifier )
the commuter belt
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Most commuters spend relatively short periods of time waiting on platforms or riding subway trains.
They each have hundreds of thousands of residents who usually commute to New York City and pay New York state income tax as well as a New York City commuter tax, but have been working remotely this past year.
Such lanes could be used not just by commuters but also delivery services using cargo bikes, as they are in famously bike-friendly Amsterdam.
It has three Metrorail stations, five Arlington Transit bus routes, nine WMATA bus routes, three commuter bus routes, two trailheads, a bus rapid-transit route that connects to Alexandria and spots of active sidewalks.
The trolley, he said, would be used by passengers who were pre-cleared — like those who can use the SENTRI program’s commuter lanes to pass more quickly through ports of entry.
The pair labored over Robinhood’s interface, teaching themselves typography and iOS design while riding Caltrain commuter rail and fine-tuning the app by asking countless strangers to try it.
Vornado is redeveloping the area around Pennsylvania Station, a bustling commuter hub that has largely gone quiet with many office workers staying home.
Regular commuters were warned to leave their offices early on Wednesday to avoid delays.
Some e-scooter companies report rising sales to individuals as commuters use the two-wheelers to run errands rather than as a way to travel to and from work.
The commuter in your life will feel special sporting this waterproof rucksack.
When one commuter stands to leave, a businessman outpaces a woman hauling a sizable shopping bag.
A rush of water spills from above, but not from the bottle of an absent-minded commuter or tipsy traveler.
The result was a perfect storm of commuter congestion where “normal Caracas chaos became absolute mayhem.”
Local vendors practically throw themselves in front of the commuter traffic, imploring passengers to take horse rides.
He was found barely alive in the woods near a commuter train line, still tied up, naked, and badly burned.
But it has its roots in my own experiences—as a journalist and a train commuter.
But among the factory and office workers is a commuter photographed on the London Overground.
In the commuter-filled train, 97 were killed at the site, and five later died of their injuries.
He wasn't a part-time commuter going back and forth to London.
For the morning commuter with a cravingPassenger Rail Transport, China Wish you could have a cigarette on your morning commute?
He bought tickets at a railway station and boarded a commuter train for a ride across the city.
Watch an adorable interaction between the unsuspecting commuter and Hova when he was en route to a performance.
And I guarantee that neither candidate is going to rip up your commuter route and replace it with a unicycle track.
At a movie theater, in a mall, at a commuter rail platform, in a restaurant—some glory-seeker opens fire.
Deng leaped from a California commuter college to the Yale School of Management.
Is your commuter flight or your trip to Hawaii in the hands of a distracted, sleep-deprived loose cannon?
That's how much some rookie pilots on commuter airlines make, maybe even the rookie pilot who flew me here to Madison today.
For this dedicated bicycle commuter, cycling felt almost as familiar as walking.
Urban-bike manufacturer Traitor Cycles has produced a line of $1,000 commuter bikes emblazoned with Pabst Blue Ribbon logos.
To be sure, thousands of these commuter planes fly safely through winter weather of all kinds.
If the 5:37 should ever be stricken from the time-card the Commuter would feel as if the light had been extinguished.
The Commuter finds his way up a steep road to his home on the hillside, his very own home.
The Pennsylvania built the new station for through travel rather than for the Commuter, at the outset.
The Illinois Central has been very progressive in its methods of handling the Commuter traffic.
The club car is one of the most elaborate developments of the entire Commuter idea.
The first of these began years ago, when the Oldest Commuter began his habit of riding to and from town in the baggage-car.
His daily trip, with all incidental expenses, aggregates more than $12.00; so he deserves to rank as the Champion Commuter.
The baggageman was good-natured, for the Oldest Commuter was a generous fellow and never forgot Christmas-times and the like.
It is an all-parlor-car train, the most luxurious suburban on the line, yet not one Commuter in a thousand knows a thing about it.
It makes train and Commuter both its concern, because that is the way it seeks to build up its profitable suburban traffic.
Many a commuter, opening his evening paper on the train, looks first of all to see if Archy is in the Dial.
But wherever you find him, the commuter is a tough and tempered soul, inured to privation and calamity.
It is obviously nothing for the daily commuter to attempt unless he is prepared to pay for the services of a competent hired man.
They shot past commuter trains at almost regular intervals for their limited had the right of way.
Is not a commuter's train, stalled in a drift, far more lively to our hearts than the mythical stage-coach?
Mr. Troy Wilkins, architect, with an office in the Septimus Building, was a commuter.
Swift as a commuter's kiss at the ferry gang-plank might be expected the direful finale.
Only God and the Commuter know how to get there, and they alone know why they stay.
One man for many years held the record as a long-distance Commuter.
The Commuter is not more concerned about that 5:37 than is the railroad.
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