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/kəˈmjuːt/ · verb
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
A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
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.
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.
Use commute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Commute means 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.
Common synonyms include convert, change, exchange, transpose.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum
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