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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Examples of "commute" in Sentences
- The sentence was commuted to penal servitude.
- The largest impact for me will be the commute.
- The Green Route is one of the Commuter Routes.
- The rest of the workers commute from the rural.
- The commuter routes form the core of the system.
- The Coaster commuter train runs on of the mainline.
- It is the busiest commuter rail hub in the United States.
- Harvard designed the Extension School for the commuter population.
- In flat spacetime, the derivatives commute and the curvature is zero.
- In the 1970s the school was commuted to a vocational school of forestry.
- Personally, I love to drive, so the commute is actually part of my leisure time.
- I firmly believe a long commute is a waste of life, and a short commute is very valuable to me.
- But most of the time, I just feel extremely grateful that it works for me, because my commute is AWESOME! anne
- One of the legs of my commute is a short hop down the Green Line that starts at the station at Aviation and Imperial.
- Figuring the cost of the patrol car, the patrolman's time and the overall distance covered, the cost per mile for her commute is astonishing.
- Do you want to leave families with children little option but to commute from the Eastside, or more suburban areas of Seattle proper? sarah68
- I temp, and I'll turn down job assignments if I see the commute is going to be too long (e.g. in my case, that's requiring I get up before 6 am or require more than 60 minutes of transit commuting).
- (We're about to learn that she drives a vintage Mustang convertible, probably inherited from the father Paul reminds her of and that she holds onto for sentimental reasons, sure, but also for the sheer fun of driving it --- her commute is the highlight of her day.)