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commute
[ kuh-myoot ]
verb (used with object)
- to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one:
The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
- to exchange for another or for something else; give and take reciprocally; interchange.
- to change:
to commute base metal into gold.
- to change (one kind of payment) into or for another, as by substitution.
verb (used without object)
- to travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back:
He commutes to work by train.
- to make substitution.
- to serve as a substitute.
- to make a collective payment, especially of a reduced amount, as an equivalent for a number of payments.
- Mathematics. to give the same result whether operating on the left or on the right.
noun
- a trip made by commuting:
It's a long commute from his home to his office.
- an act or instance of commuting.
commute
/ kəˈmjuːt /
verb
- intr to travel some distance regularly between one's home and one's place of work
- tr to substitute; exchange
- tr law to reduce (a sentence) to one less severe
- to pay (an annuity) at one time, esp with a discount, instead of in instalments
- tr to transform; change
to commute base metal into gold
- intr to act as or be a substitute
- intr to make a substitution; change
noun
- a journey made by commuting
commute
/ kə-myo̅o̅t′ /
- To yield the same result regardless of order. For example, numbers commute under addition, which is a commutative operation. Generally, any two operators H and G commute if their commutator is zero, i.e. HG − GH = 0.
Derived Forms
- comˈmutable, adjective
- comˌmutaˈbility, noun
Other Words From
- uncom·muted adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of commute1
Word History and Origins
Origin of commute1
Example Sentences
There’s no commute, there’s no lunchtime or after work drinks.
These are issued when questionable weather overlaps with the commute but is not quite enough for an advisory.
For a cold commute, the best winter gloves will allow you to use touch screen technology without going barehanded.
At one point, before her hour-long commute, she reportedly mentioned that her hands were cold.
As workers return to offices, they may still feel most comfortable with socially distant commutes rather than public transit.
The rapid rise of the sharing economy is changing the way people around the world commute, shop, vacation, and borrow.
A tense commute to work in Houston will start to resemble a tense commute in Boston or New York City.
It meant a serious commute, and a few quibbles from the locals about jumping to a rival, but Malania put in the hours.
Stephanie lives in the Bronx and works in Manhattan, a commute that should take 45 minutes.
He will spend the rest of his commute sedentary, and she upright.
McAllen didn't look in the least like a man who could afford nowadays to commute by air between the Mediterranean and California.
His voice was for the gallows,—but, in consideration of the criminal's rank, he would consent to commute the cord for the axe.
When a man wanted to commute then he paid a monthly fee to the railroad and they printed his name on this official list.
Did you commute back and forth from your sister's home in Irving?
I've got enough money to commute, when the time comes, and I'll feel a lot better if I go through with it now I've started.
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