mid-15c., "to change, transform," from Latin commutare "to often change, to change altogether," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + mutare "to change" (see mutable). Sense of "make less severe" is 1630s. Sense of "go back and forth to work" is 1889, from commutation ticket "season pass" (on a railroad, streetcar line, etc.), from commute in its sense of "to change one kind of payment into another" (1795), especially "to combine a number of payments into a single one." Related: Commuted; commuting.
例文
1. The average Los Angeles commute is over 60 miles a day.
ロサンゼルスの平均通勤距離は1日60マイル以上。
2.He 's going to commute .
長距離バスで往復通勤するつもりだ。
3.We chose to live out of town and commute to work every day.
私たちは町の外に住んで、毎日道を急いで出勤することを決意しました。
4.There 's nothing quite like a real train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute .
現実の列車車掌のように日常の通勤交通線を彩るものは何もない。
5.I spend much less time on my commute to work now.