commute

/kəˈmjuːt/
verb
  1. To travel regularly between one's home and place of work or school.
    • She commutes to the city by train every day.
    • He commutes 30 miles each way to get to the office.
    • Many people commute from the suburbs to their jobs downtown.
  2. To change a punishment to a less severe one.
    • The governor commuted the prisoner's sentence to time served.
    • The judge commuted the death penalty to life in prison.
    • The king commuted the exile to a fine.
  3. In mathematics, to produce the same result regardless of the order of two elements or operations.
    • Addition and multiplication commute for real numbers.
    • These two matrices do not commute under multiplication.
    • In this group, the elements a and b commute with each other.
Synonyms
noun
  1. A regular journey between home and work or school.
    • Traffic made the morning commute even longer.
    • Her daily commute takes about an hour each way.
    • The long commute was tiring, so he moved closer to work.
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