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ALL meanings of commute

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  • verb commute If you commute, you travel a long distance every day between your home and your place of work. 3
  • countable noun commute A commute is the journey that you make when you commute. 3
  • verb commute If a death sentence or prison sentence is commuted to a less serious punishment, it is changed to that punishment. 3
  • verb commute to travel some distance regularly between one's home and one's place of work 3
  • verb commute to substitute; exchange 3
  • verb commute to reduce (a sentence) to one less severe 3
  • verb commute to pay (an annuity) at one time, esp with a discount, instead of in instalments 3
  • verb commute to transform; change 3
  • verb commute to act as or be a substitute 3
  • verb commute to make a substitution; change 3
  • noun commute a journey made by commuting 3
  • verb transitive commute to change (one thing) for or into another; exchange; substitute 3
  • verb transitive commute to change (an obligation, punishment, etc.) to one that is less severe 3
  • verb transitive commute to substitute (payment in a lump sum) for payment in installments 3
  • intransitive verb commute to be a substitute 3
  • intransitive verb commute to make up; compensate 3
  • intransitive verb commute to travel as a commuter 3
  • noun commute the trip of a commuter 3
  • verb commute If you commute an annuity, you pay it at one time instead of in installments. 3
  • intransitive verb commute travel to work 1
  • intransitive verb commute travel to: work, school 1
  • transitive verb commute prison sentence: reduce 1
  • noun commute journey to work 1
  • noun commute Travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis. 1
  • verb with object commute to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. 1
  • verb with object commute to exchange for another or for something else; give and take reciprocally; interchange. 1
  • verb with object commute to change: to commute base metal into gold. 1
  • verb with object commute to change (one kind of payment) into or for another, as by substitution. 1
  • verb without object commute to travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back: He commutes to work by train. 1
  • verb without object commute to make substitution. 1
  • verb without object commute to serve as a substitute. 1
  • verb without object commute to make a collective payment, especially of a reduced amount, as an equivalent for a number of payments. 1
  • verb without object commute Mathematics. to give the same result whether operating on the left or on the right. 1
  • noun commute a trip made by commuting: It's a long commute from his home to his office. 1
  • noun commute an act or instance of commuting. 1
  • noun commute A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school. 0
  • noun commute The route, time or distance of that journey. 0
  • verb commute (Intransitive Verb) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa. 0
  • verb commute (Intransitive Verb) (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. 0
  • 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. 0
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