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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.Ìýto 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
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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
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.
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- commutable adjective
- commutability noun
- uncommuted adjective
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of commute1
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of commute1
Example Sentences
Genoveva RamÃrez, 35, who works in marketing and advertising, commutes two hours each day to the Juárez neighborhood because rent in the city is “impossible for me.â€
After that, he began regularly commuting from his family’s home in South Carolina to the nearest RC track in Savannah, Ga.
Julie Imrie was on her Piccadilly line commute to work 20 years ago when a series of bombs were detonated on London's public transport system, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds more.
That matters to a construction worker commuting 60 miles a day in a pickup truck.
"People think that it's a really big thing to commute to another country," says the software engineer who works for Neo4j, a Swedish-founded database company.
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