COMMUTE

commute

(noun) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work; “there is standing room only on the high-speed commute”

change, exchange, commute, convert

(verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; “Could you convert my dollars into pounds?”; “He changed his name”; “convert centimeters into inches”; “convert holdings into shares”

commute, convert, exchange

(verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one

permute, commute, transpose

(verb) change the order or arrangement of; “Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word”

commute, transpose

(verb) exchange positions without a change in value; “These operators commute with each other”

commute

(verb) travel back and forth regularly, as between one’s place of work and home

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

commute (third-person singular simple present commutes, present participle commuting, simple past and past participle commuted)

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

(transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.

(transitive, legal, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

(transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash

(intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

(intransitive, 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.

Etymology 2

Noun

commute (plural commutes)

A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

The route, time or distance of that journey.

Verb

commute (third-person singular simple present commutes, present participle commuting, simple past and past participle commuted)

(intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey

Source: Wiktionary

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Com*mute", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Commuting.] Etym: [L. commutare, -mutatum; com- + mutare to change. See Mutation.]

Definition: 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; hence; to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares. The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse. J. Harris The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. Macaulay.

Com*mute", v. i.

1. To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation. He . . . thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind. Jer. Taylor.

2. To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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