verb🔗ShareTo 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 commute daily fares for a season ticket"businessfinanceeconomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareOf 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."computingmathlogicChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa."I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle."jobworkvehicletrafficChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo journey, to make a journey"She is commuting to work by train every day. "vehiclejobtrafficwayChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareTravel between home and workplace"My sister hates the long commuting she has to do every day to get to her job in the city. "jobworktrafficChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareTravel by public transportation such as by jeepney""My daily commuting involves riding a jeepney to work." "vehicletrafficChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareCausing, or involved in commutation"The railroad's commuting service, focused on transporting workers to the city each morning, expanded significantly as the population grew. "jobworkbusinesstrafficChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading