commute
To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offenseTo 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 reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
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» I commute by bus and train.
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Examples
54 sentencesMeaning
9 sensesTo 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 reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
herabsetzen, umwandeln, abwandeln
смягчать наказаниеsmjaxčatʹ nakazanije
(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
(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
More meanings 6
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
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
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 out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
ablösen, umwandeln
(Philippines, intransitive)To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
(intransitive)To journey, to make a journey
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
Origin
Borrowed from Latin commūtō.Borrowed from Latin commūtō.
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Forms
commutes, commuting, commuted, commutedTenses
commute · commuted · will commute · have commutedSynonyms
5 synonymsWord family
15 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.