Commute

Quick meaning: Commute is a verb meaning A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. The route, time or distance of that journey.
2. (intransitive, US, UK, Canada) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
3. (intransitive, Philippines) To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
4. (intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
5. 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
6. (intransitive, mathematics) 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

to commute market rents for a premium

to commute daily fares for a season ticket

to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum

I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

Word Forms

• commutes
• commuting
• commuted

Synonyms for commute

Depending on context, synonyms include convert, change, exchange, transpose, permute.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exchange, transpose, change, convert, permute, buy.

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