commute
commute Lexical Profile
commute Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A regular journey of some distance between one's home and place of work or study.
"Listening to audiobooks makes her morning commute much more enjoyable."
• verb
To travel some distance regularly between one's home and place of work or study.
"Thousands of people commute into the city by train every weekday."
To reduce a judicial sentence, especially a death sentence, to another less severe one (in law).
"The governor decided to commute the prisoner's death sentence to life imprisonment."
To replace one kind of payment or obligation with another, especially to exchange an annuity or pension for a single lump-sum payment.
"Retirees may choose to commute a portion of their annual pension into an immediate tax-free lump sum."
To yield the same mathematical result regardless of the order in which two quantities or operations are combined (in mathematics).
"In basic arithmetic, multiplication and addition commute, whereas matrix multiplication generally does not."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Latin commutare ('to change altogether' or 'to exchange'), formed from com- ('together') and mutare ('to change'). The modern sense of traveling regularly between home and work developed in 19th-century American English from the practice of 'commuting' daily railway fares into a reduced-price season ticket.