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Commuter

noun

A passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another. Synonym: commuter train.

Someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city.

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"Commuter" Quotes from Famous Books

... conceded, laughing in spite of himself, "it does seem that when a European girl deigns to play a while with her American cousins, Europe might stay on its own side of the pond. This Pagratide is a commuter over the Northern Ocean track. He harasses the Atlantic with his ...

— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck

... 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 from his office to the Subway station. But no commuter ...

— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky

... getting any better. They continued to travel up and down his body with the dignified regularity of Pennsylvania Railroad commuter trains. ...

— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett

... how true Romance can never die, how Wonder is all about even the Wall Street clerk and the five-o'clock commuter. He put forward the claim that modern New York was as potentially picturesque, as alluringly labyrinthine, as olden Bagdad itself. He argued that the Thousand and One Tales were nightly recurring in our very midst, only we had neither the eyes nor the leisure to observe them. ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine