Meaning

9 senses
  1. 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

  2. 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)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

    ablösen

  3. (transitive)To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

    His prison sentence was commuted to probation.

    herabsetzen, umwandeln, abwandeln

    смягчать наказаниеsmjaxčatʹ nakazanije

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

    ablösen, umwandeln

  5. (intransitive)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.

    ersetzen, tauschen, austauschen

    коммутироватьkommutirovatʹ

    change the order or arrangement of

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

    I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

    pendeln, hin- und herfahren

    е́здитьjézditʹ

    travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

  7. (Philippines, intransitive)To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.

  8. (intransitive)To journey, to make a journey

  9. 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

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

    tauschen

Examples

64 sentences
  1. Tom commutes to work by motorcycle.

    Том їздить на роботу на мотоциклі.

    ruФома ездит на работу на мотоцикле.

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  2. Tom commutes to work by bicycle.

    Том їздить на роботу на велосипеді.

    ruТом ездит на работу на велосипеде.

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  3. Tom commutes to school by train.

    ruФома ездит в школу на поезде.

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  4. Tom commutes to work by train.

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  5. Tom commutes to school by bicycle.

    ruТом ездит в школу на велосипеде.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
legal: to reduce a sentence:
math: to be commutative:
to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
to pay in gross instead of part by part:
legal: to reduce a sentence:
to put or substitute something else in place of:
to obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution:
math: to be commutative:
to regularly travel to and from work, school etc.:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin commūtō.

Borrowed from Latin commūtō.

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Forms

commutes, commuting, commuted, commuted
Base formcommute · to commute
3rd person singularcommutes
Present participlecommuting
Past simplecommuted
Past participlecommuted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycommute
he, she, itcommutes

Past simpleLesson

all personscommuted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave commuted
he, she, ithas commuted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill commute

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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