commute
verb
[ kəˈmjuːt ]
• travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis.
• "he commuted from Corby to Kentish Town"
Similar:
travel to and from work,
travel to and fro,
travel back and forth,
come and go,
shuttle,
• reduce (a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death) to another less severe one.
• "the governor commuted the sentence to fifteen years' imprisonment"
Similar:
reduce,
lessen,
lighten,
shorten,
cut,
scale down,
limit,
curtail,
attenuate,
mitigate,
moderate,
modify,
adjust,
• (of two operations or quantities) have a commutative relation.
• "operators which do not commute with each other"
commute
noun
• a regular journey of some distance to and from one's place of work.
• "the daily commute"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘interchange (two things’)): from Latin commutare, from com- ‘altogether’ + mutare ‘to change’. commute (sense 1 of the verb) originally meant to buy and use a commutation ticket, a US term for a season ticket (because the daily fare is commuted to a single payment).
