telecommuting

English

Etymology

tele- +‎ commuting

Noun

telecommuting (uncountable)

1. The practice of using telecommunications technology to do one's work at a location remote from one's office, such as one's home, an Internet café, etc.

   Synonyms: working from home, teleworking, cybercommuting

   Hyponyms: working from home, WFH

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, via PC, →ISBN, →OCLC, scene: Earth Codex entry:

     The homeworld and capital of humanity is entering a new golden age. The resource wealth of a dozen settled colonies and a hundred industrial outposts flows back to Earth, fueling great works of industry, commerce, and art. The great cities are greening as arcology skyscrapers and telecommuting allow more efficient use of land.

Translations

practice of using telecommunications technology to work from a remote location

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遠程工作／远程工作 (yuǎnchéng gōngzuò), 远程工作 (yuǎnchéng gōngzuò)

• Danish: distancearbejde c
• Dutch: telewerk (nl) n
• Estonian: kaugtöö (et)
• Finnish: etätyö (fi)
• French: télétravail (fr) m
• Galician: teletraballo m
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• German: Telearbeit (de) f, Homeoffice (de) n , Heimarbeit f
• Greek: τηλεργασία (el) f (tilergasía)
• Hungarian: távmunka (hu)
• Italian: telelavoro (it) m, smart working m
• Japanese: テレワーク (terewāku)
• Portuguese: teletrabalho (pt) m
• Romanian: muncă de acasă f
• Spanish: teletrabajo (es) m
• Swedish: distansarbete (sv)

Verb

telecommuting

1. present participle of telecommute

Related terms

• telecommute
• telecommuter