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commute

Pronunciation: /kəˈmjuːt/

The English word “commute” has 11 meanings listed here.

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
  2. To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
  3. To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
  4. To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
  5. To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
  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.
  7. To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
  8. To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
  9. To journey, to make a journey

noun

  1. A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.
  2. The route, time or distance of that journey.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commūtō.

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