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Commuter   Listen
adjective
Commuter  adj.  Of or pertaining to commuting, in the sense of traveling; used for commuting; as, a commuter airline.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Commuter" Quotes from Famous Books



... the country, his place is only forty-three minutes from City Hall. But when he asked me last week to spend Saturday afternoon with him, he told me that some trains are slower than others and that I had better allow ten minutes for the ferry. I have never known a commuter who told the truth about the time it takes him to cover the distance from his office-door to his front lawn. If he is exceptionally conscientious he will take into account the preliminary ride on the Subway and possibly even the walk ...
— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky

... we worked lodge was this way. The General, he had his breakfast at 8:45 A.M. to the tick. He might have been a Long Island commuter. At 8:42 A.M. I'd go down to the Thirty-fourth Street ferry to meet him—I mean I'd see the Zigler into position at two thousand (I began at three thousand, but that was cold and distant)—and blow him off to two full hoppers—eighteen rounds—just as they were bringing in his coffee. ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Commuter" :   straphanger, commute, commuter traffic, passenger train, commuter train, rider



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