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Definitions for Commute

[1] to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
[2] to exchange for another or for something else; give and take reciprocally; interchange.
[3] to change: to commute base metal into gold.
[4] to change (one kind of payment) into or for another, as by substitution.
[5] to travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back: He commutes to work by train.
[6] to make substitution.
[7] to serve as a substitute.
[8] to make a collective payment, especially of a reduced amount, as an equivalent for a number of payments.
[9] Mathematics . to give the same result whether operating on the left or on the right.
[10] a trip made by commuting: It's a long commute from his home to his office.
[11] an act or instance of commuting.
[12] (intr) to travel some distance regularly between one's home and one's place of work
[13] (tr) to substitute; exchange
[14] (tr) law to reduce (a sentence) to one less severe
[15] to pay (an annuity) at one time, esp with a discount, instead of in instalments
[16] (tr) to transform; change to commute base metal into gold
[17] (intr) to act as or be a substitute
[18] (intr) to make a substitution; change
[19] a journey made by commuting

Words related to Commute

shorten, drive, mitigate, modify, remit, soften, decrease, alleviate, curtail, transmute, interchange, convert, barter, transfer, transpose, transform, metamorphose, switch, transmogrify, transfigure

Words nearby Commute

commutative, commutative group, commutative law, commutator, commutator group, commute, commuter, commuter airplane, commuter belt, commuter marriage, commuter tax

Origin of Commute

1400–50; 1885–90 for def 5 ; late Middle English < Latin commūtāre to change, replace, exchange, equivalent to com- com- + mūtāre to change

Words that may be confused with Commute

commute, forgive, pardon, (see, synonym, study, at, pardon)

Other words from Commute

un·com·mut·ed , adjective

Word origin for Commute

C17: from Latin commutāre to replace, from com- mutually + mutāre to change

Synonyms for Commute

drive, go back and forth, take the bus/subway/train