All 3 Uses of
commute
in
The Great Gatsby
- The practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was a warm season, and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town, it sounded like a great idea.
p. 3..9commuting = of people who need to travel to work each day
- Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn't know — though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.
p. 42..1 *commuting = taking people between home and work
- My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand.
p. 115..3commutation = from the trip
Definition:
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(commute as in: commute from New Jersey) regular travel -- such as between home and work