commute /kəˈmjuːt/verb 9noun 2forms 3 verb9 •To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle. •(Philippines) To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport. •To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.His prison sentence was commuted to probation. •To journey, to make a journey •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 lessento commute tithes into rentcharges for a sumto commute market rents for a premium •To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part. •To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash •Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute. •(no longer used) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;He […] thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind. — 1660 noun2 •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. — 2012 •The route, time or distance of that journey. formscommuted · commuting · commutes
