commute

B2
Pronunciation
/kəˈmjuːt/
Noun
2 definition(s)
1 Definition

A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

2 Definition

The route, time or distance of that journey.

Verb
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket
2 Definition

Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

Example Sentences
  • A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
3 Definition

To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

Example Sentences
  • I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
4 Definition

To journey, to make a journey