commute
/kəˈmjut/ verb B2- To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen. · to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum· to commute market rents for a premium
- To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part. · to commute the daily toll for a year's pass
- To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense. · His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
- To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
- Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result. · A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
He/she/it commutes · Past commuted · Past participle commuted · -ing form commuting
Verb forms
- Base form
- commute
- He/she/it
- commutes
- Past
- commuted
- Past participle
- commuted
- -ing form
- commuting
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First, you do not have to commute to work every morning.
It takes longer to commute, but the peaceful environment is absolutely worth the extra time.
This remarkable paradigm of convenience has undeniably optimized our daily commutes and eradicated the profound anxiety of becoming hopelessly lost.
Consequently, the daily commute became an indelible fixture of the modern lifestyle, inextricably linking personal autonomy to private automobile ownership.
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