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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024com•mute /kəˈmyut/USA pronunciation v., -mut•ed, -mut•ing, n. v. - 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.
- Transport to travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back again:[no object]She commutes from upstate to the city every day.
n. [countable] - a trip made by commuting:How long is your commute?
See -mut-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024com•mute (kə myo̅o̅t′),USA pronunciation v., -mut•ed, -mut•ing, n. v.t. - 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.
- to change (one kind of payment) into or for another, as by substitution.
v.i. - Transportto travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back:He commutes to work by train.
- to make substitution.
- to serve as a substitute.
- to make a collective payment, esp. of a reduced amount, as an equivalent for a number of payments.
- Mathematicsto give the same result whether operating on the left or on the right.
n. - a trip made by commuting:It's a long commute from his home to his office.
- an act or instance of commuting.
- Latin commūtāre to change, replace, exchange, equivalent. to com- com- + mūtāre to change
- 1400–50; 1885–90 for def. 5; late Middle English
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: commute /kəˈmjuːt/ vb - (intransitive) to travel some distance regularly between one's home and one's place of work
- (transitive) to substitute; exchange
- (transitive) to reduce (a sentence) to one less severe
- to pay (an annuity) at one time, esp with a discount, instead of in instalments
- (transitive) to transform; change: to commute base metal into gold
Etymology: 17th Century: from Latin commutāre to replace, from com- mutually + mutāre to changecomˈmutable adj comˌmutaˈbility n |