commute
See also: commuté
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
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- 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 lessen
- to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket
- (transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
- to commute the daily toll for a year's pass
- (transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
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- The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.
- His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
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- (transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
- (intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
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- He […] thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
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- (intransitive, mathematics) 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.
Derived terms
Translations
finance: to pay out the lump-sum present value
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to pay in gross instead of part by part
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legal: to reduce a sentence
to obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution
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to put or substitute something else in place of
math: to be commutative
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Etymology 2
From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.
Noun
commute (plural commutes)
- A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
- The route, time or distance of that journey.
Translations
route
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distance
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Verb
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- (intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
- I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
- 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]:
- By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.
- 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]:
Translations
to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “commute”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.}
French
Pronunciation
Verb
commute
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