commute

verb

1. 1

   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

2. 2

   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 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

3. 3

   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 reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

   His prison sentence was commuted to probation.

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   Ruslan Kutaev is evidence of this: not only was the elderly man sentenced to four years in prison (later commuted to two months), but he was tortured and his family threatened. This seems to be the price of viewing the world in other than Kadyrovite terms.

4. 4

   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 pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash

5. 5

   obsoleteTo 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 obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

   He […] thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.

6. 6

   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.

noun

1. 1

   A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.

   If you're hearing me then it means your ego has been commuted successfully into this CAT with zero errors. Only one warning by the way: it may take a moment to acclimatize to being a bodyless ego, but try not to worry too much.

   PS: The average commute time in the freewayless City of Vancouver is 27 minutes, while outside of the City of Vancouver the average commute time is 31 minutes.

2. 2

   The route, time or distance of that journey.

verb

1. 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.

   My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay £65 per night for a single room.

   MRS. PATERSON, a runner and semilapsed vegetarian — she eats meat once a week to fend off anemia — spends weekdays in Manhattan with her son and commutes to Albany most weekends; she and her husband rented out their house in Guilderland, an Albany suburb, and have moved into the Executive Mansion, where she is continuing Ms. Wall Spitzer’s “greening” initiative.

2. 2

   To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.

3. 3

   To journey, to make a journey

   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.

Forms

plural

commutes

past tense

commuted

past participle

commuted

present participle

commuting

third person singular

commutes