commute

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From Latin commūtō

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commute (third-person singular simple present commutes, present participle commuting, simple past and past participle commuted)

  1. (intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace, or vice versa.
    I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
  2. (transitive, finance) To pay out the lump-sum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments.
  3. (intransitive) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part.
    to commute for a year's travel over a route
  4. (transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
    'His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
  5. (intransitive) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
    • Jeremy Taylor
      He [] thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
  6. (intransitive, mathematics) To engage in a commutative operation.
    A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.

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commute (plural commutes)

  1. The route one takes to travel to a workplace or back.
  2. The distance of that route.

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commute

  1. first-person singular present indicative of commuter
  2. third-person singular present indicative of commuter
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of commuter
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of commuter
  5. second-person singular imperative of commuter