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COMMUTE definition: 1. to make the same journey regularly between work and home: 2. to change one thing into another…. Learn more.
1. a. : change, alter. b. : to give in exchange for another : exchange. commuting foreign currency to domestic. 2. : to convert (something, such as a payment) into another form. The periodic payments may be commuted into a lump sum. 3. : to change (a penalty) to another less severe. commute a death sentence to life in prison. 4. : commutate.
A commute is a journey you take from home to work and back again. You might enjoy your subway commute because it gives you lots of time to read. Your commute is your trip to work, and the verb commute describes making that trip — like your preference to commute by public bus.
If you commute, you travel a long distance every day between your home and your place of work.
COMMUTE definition: to regularly travel between work and home. Learn more.
Definition of commute verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] to travel regularly by bus, train, car, etc. between your place of work and your home. commute (from A) (to B) She commutes from Oxford to London every day.
to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. to exchange for another or for something else; give and take reciprocally; interchange. to change: to commute base metal into gold.
1. To substitute (one thing for another); exchange. 2. To change (a penalty, debt, or payment) to a less severe one. n. An act or instance of commuting, especially the trip made by a commuter: a 22-mile commute; an easy commute.
commute the regular trip that a person makes when they travel to work and back home again: a two-hour commute into downtown Washington; expedition an organized journey with a particular purpose, especially to find out about a place that is not well known: the first expedition to the South Pole
to change (a penalty) to a less severe one:[ ~ + object] commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. Business to change (one kind of payment) into or for another, as by substitution:[ ~ + object] The government commuted his pension to a lump sum.
