commute

See also commuté

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin commūtō

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəˈmjuːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• commuter
• commuting

Translations

to regularly travel

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通勤 (cmn) (tōngqín)

• Danish: pendle (da)
• Dutch: pendelen (nl)
• Finnish: käydä töissä (fi)
• French: faire la navette (fr)
• German: pendeln (de), hin- und herfahren (de)
• Hungarian: ingázik (hu)

• Italian: fare il pendolare (it)
• Japanese: 通う (ja) (かよう, kayou), 通勤する (ja) (つうきんする, tsūkin-suru)
• Polish: dojeżdżać do pracy (pl)
• Russian: (регулярно) ездить (ru) (jézdit’)  (на работу, на учёбу, etc.)
• Spanish: pendular (es), (to work) viajar al trabajo (es), (from work) viajar del trabajo (es)
• Swedish: pendla (sv)

finance: to pay out the lump-sum present value

• Finnish: maksaa kerralla (fi)

to pay, in gross instead of part by part

• Finnish: maksaa kerralla (fi)

legal: to reduce a sentence

• Finnish: lieventää (fi)

to obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution

• Finnish: tinkiä (fi)

math: to engage in a commutative operation

• Danish: kommutere (da)
• Finnish: kommutoida (fi)
• French: commuter (fr)
• German: kommutativ sein (de), vertauschbar sein (de)
• Hungarian: kommutál (hu)

• Italian: commutare (it)
• Russian: коммутировать (ru) (kommutirovatʹ)
• Spanish: conmutar (es)
• Swedish: kommutera (sv)

Noun

commute (plural commutes)

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

Translations

route

• Finnish: työmatka (fi)

distance

• Finnish: työmatka (fi)

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: commutent, commutes

Verb

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