commute

IPA: kʌmjˈut

noun

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

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
  • (transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
  • (transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
  • (transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
  • (intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
  • (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.
  • (intransitive, US, UK, Canada) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
  • (intransitive, Philippines) To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
  • (intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
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