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   com·mute

   /kəˈmyo͞ot/

   verb

   • 1. travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis: "she commuted from Westport in to Grand Central Station" Similar travel to and from worktravel to and frotravel back and forthcome and goshuttle
   • 2. reduce (a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death) to one less severe: "he commuted the sentences of hundreds of convicts" Similar reducelessenlightenshortencutscale downlimitcurtailattenuatemitigatemoderatemodifyadjustOpposite increaseuphold
   • ▪ change one kind of payment or obligation for (another): "tithes were commuted into an annual sum varying with the price of corn" Similar exchangechangeinterchangesubstituteswaptradebarterswitcharchaic:truck
   • ▪ replace (an annuity or other series of payments) with a single payment: "if he had commuted some of his pension, he would have received $330,000"
   • 3. (of two operations or quantities) have a commutative relationship: "operators which do not commute with each other"

   noun

   • 1. a regular journey of some distance to and from one's place of work: "the daily commute"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘interchange (two things’)): from Latin commutare, from com- ‘altogether’ + mutare ‘to change’. commute (sense 1 of the verb) originally meant to buy and use a commutation ticket, a US term for a season ticket (because the daily fare is commuted to a single payment).

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