commute

Plural: commutes

Noun

• a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work
  • "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute"
• A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.
• The route, time or distance of that journey.

Verb

Verb Forms: commuted, commuting, commutes

• To travel regularly between home and work; to exchange.
• exchange positions without a change in value
  • "These operators commute with each other"
• travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
• change the order or arrangement of
• exchange a penalty for a less severe one
• exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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;
• Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
• To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
• To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
• To journey, to make a journey

Examples

• A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
• He decided to commute his low-value tiles for new ones, hoping for better letters.
• His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
• I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
• to commute daily fares for a season ticket
• to commute market rents for a premium
• to commute the daily toll for a year's pass
• to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum

Synonyms

change, convert, exchange, permute, transpose

Anagrams of commute