COMMUTE

/kəˈmjuːt/ ► audio Scrabble 13 Words With Friends 17

Definition

  1. noun a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work.
  2. verb exchange positions without a change in value. — synonyms: transpose
  3. verb travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home.
  4. verb change the order or arrangement of. — synonyms: permute, transpose
  5. verb exchange a penalty for a less severe one. — synonyms: convert, exchange
  6. 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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