commute

verb

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. (transitive)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 the daily toll for a year's pass”

3. (transitive)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

   “His prison sentence was commuted to probation.”

   “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. (transitive)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
5. (intransitive, obsolete)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

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

6. (intransitive)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.”

7. (Canada, UK, US, intransitive)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.”

8. (Philippines, intransitive)To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
9. (intransitive)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.”

noun

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

   “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. The route, time or distance of that journey.