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Commute

//kəˈmjuːt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.

    "PS: The average commute time in the freewayless City of Vancouver is 27 minutes, while outside of the City of Vancouver the average commute time is 31 minutes."

  2. 2
    a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work wordnet
  3. 3
    The route, time or distance of that journey.
Verb
  1. 1
    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

    "to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum"

  2. 2
    To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa. Canada, UK, US, intransitive

    "I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle."

  3. 3
    exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category wordnet
  4. 4
    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen; To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part. transitive

    "to commute the daily toll for a year's pass"

  5. 5
    To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport. Philippines, intransitive
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  1. 6
    exchange a penalty for a less severe one wordnet
  2. 7
    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen; To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense. transitive

    "His prison sentence was commuted to probation."

  3. 8
    To journey, to make a journey intransitive

    "By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined."

  4. 9
    change the order or arrangement of wordnet
  5. 10
    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen; To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash transitive
  6. 11
    exchange positions without a change in value wordnet
  7. 12
    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen; To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; intransitive, obsolete

    "He […] thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind."

  8. 13
    travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home wordnet
  9. 14
    Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result. intransitive

    "A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin commūtō.

Etymology 2

From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.

Etymology 3

From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.

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