commuters

Language: en

🇺🇸 /kəˈmjuːtɜrz/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    People who travel regularly between their place of residence and their place of work or study, typically over a considerable distance.; People who travel back and forth between two places on a regular basis, not necessarily for work.; In mathematics, elements that commute with a given element under a specified operation; elements x such that ax = xa.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: commuters

Collocations

commuter traincommuter towncommuter beltcommuter trafficcommuter linecommuter parking

Derivatives

commutecommutingcommutationcommutable

Synonyms

travelerpassengerdaily travelerpendular

Commonly confused

commute
EN: 'Commute' is the verb (to travel regularly) or the noun (the journey itself); 'commuter' is the person who makes that journey.
traveler
EN: 'Traveler' is a general term for anyone who travels; 'commuter' specifically refers to someone making a regular, typically daily, journey between home and work.

Spelling tips

EN: No common spelling issues. Note the single 't' in 'commuter' (from 'commute' + '-er').

💬 Examples

  1. The train was packed with commuters heading into the city for work.

  2. The ferry service was designed to accommodate commuters traveling between the island and the mainland.

  3. The set of all commuters of an element forms the centralizer of that element in the group.