COMMUTE
/kəˈmjuːt/ ► audio Scrabble 13 Words With Friends 17
Definition
- noun a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work.
- verb exchange positions without a change in value.
— synonyms: transpose
- verb travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home.
- verb change the order or arrangement of.
— synonyms: permute, transpose
- verb exchange a penalty for a less severe one.
— synonyms: convert, exchange
- verb exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.
— synonyms: change, exchange, convert
Examples
- “to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket”
- “A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.”
- “I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.”
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