commute
/kəˈmjuːt/
verb
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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noun
- 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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