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Definition of 'commute'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) commute
to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe form.

2.  commute
to exchange for another or for something else; interchange.

3.  commute
to change:
to commute base metal into gold.

4.  commute
to change (one kind of payment) into or for another, as by substitution.

5. (v.i.) commute
to travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back.

6.  commute
to make substitution; compensate.

7.  commute
to serve as a substitute.

8.  commute
to give the same mathematical result whether operating on the left or on the right.

9. (n.) commute
a trip made by commuting.

10.  commute
an act or instance of commuting.

Etymology: (1400–50; < L commūtāre to change, replace)

Definition of 'commute'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) commute
a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work
"there is standing room only on the high-speed commute"

2. (verb) commute, transpose
exchange positions without a change in value
"These operators commute with each other"

3. (verb) commute
travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

4. (verb) permute, commute, transpose
change the order or arrangement of
"Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word"

5. (verb) commute, convert, exchange
exchange a penalty for a less severe one

6. (verb) change, exchange, commute, convert
exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
"Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares"

Definition of 'commute'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) commute
to travel a fairly long distance to work
He commutes from the North Shore into Boston.

2. (noun) commute
the time when people travel to or from work
the afternoon/morning commute

Definition of 'commute'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) commute
to exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares

2. (verb) commute
to obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation

3. (verb) commute
to pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route

Translation of 'commute'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to travel regularly between two places, especially between home in the suburbs and work in the city.
Afrikaans: pendel	Arabic: يُسافِرُ يَوْمِيّا إلى مك	Bulgarian: пътувам редовно
Brazilian: viajar diariamente	Czech: dojíždět	German: pendeln
Danish: pendle; rejse frem og til	Greek: πηγαινοέρχομαι καθημερινά	Spanish: desplazarse diariamente a
Estonian: pendeldama	Farsi: رفت و آمد میان دو نقطۀ نس	Finnish: työpaikan ja kodin välill
French: faire la navette (entre)	Hebrew: לִנסוֹע בִּקבִיעוּת	Hindi: शहर के एक हिस्से से दूसरे
Croatian: voziti se, putovati	Hungarian: ingázik	Indonesian: pulang-pergi
Icelandic: ferðast daglega milli vin	Italian: fare il pendolare	Japanese: 通勤する
Korean: 통근하다	Lithuanian: reguliariai važinėti	Latvian: regulāri braukāt
Malay: berulang-alik	Dutch: pendelen	Norwegian: pendle
Polish: dojeżdżać	Persian: رفت و آمد میان دو نقطۀ نس	Pashto: بدلون: دجرم لږول: سفر كول
Portuguese: viajar diariamente	Romanian: a face naveta (între)	Russian: совершать регулярные поез
Slovak: dochádzať	Slovenian: voziti se (na delo)	Serbian: putovati na posao
Swedish: pendla	Thai: เดินทาง	Turkish: işe gidip gelme
Taiwanese: 經常往來兩地之間(尤指住市郊但在市區上班的通勤)	Ukrainian: робити регулярні поїздки	Urdu: باقاعدگی سے سفر کرنے والا
Vietnamese: đi lại thường xuyên giữa	Chinese: 经常往来两地之间，通勤
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