COMMUTE

commute

Noun

  1. A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
  2. The route, time or distance of that journey.

Verb

  1. To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
    I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
  2. To pay out the lump-sum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments.
  3. To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part.
    to commute for a year's travel over a route
  4. To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
    His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
  5. To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
  6. To engage in a commutative operation.
    A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
  7. Such that any two sequences of morphisms with the same initial and final objects as one another will have the same value on any element in the initial object.
  8. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate.
    to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares


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