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Commute   /kəmjˈut/   Listen
Commute

verb
(past & past part. commuted; pres. part. commuting)
1.
Exchange positions without a change in value.  Synonym: transpose.
2.
Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home.
3.
Change the order or arrangement of.  Synonyms: permute, transpose.
4.
Exchange a penalty for a less severe one.  Synonyms: convert, exchange.
5.
Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.  Synonyms: change, convert, exchange.  "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"
noun
1.
A regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work.



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"Commute" Quotes from Famous Books



... almost a minute before he felt sure of it this time. Not that it was impossible for McAllen to be sitting in that boat, but it did seem extremely unlikely. McAllen didn't look in the least like a man who could afford nowadays to commute by air between the Mediterranean and California. And Barney felt something else trouble him obscurely as he stared down at the old scientist; a notion of some kind was stirring about in the back corridors of his mind, but refused to be ...
— Gone Fishing • James H. Schmitz
... for him; for the baiting your hook with a dead gudgeon or a roach, and moving it up and down the water, is too easy a thing to take up any time to direct you to do it. And yet, because I cut you short in that, I will commute for it by telling you that that was told me for a secret: it is this: Dissolve gum of ivy in oil of spike, and therewith anoint your dead bait for a Pike; and then cast it into a likely place; and when it has lain a short time at the bottom, draw it towards the top of ...
— The Complete Angler • Izaak Walton
... months before the campaign Tietzow was an unemployed electrical engineer who had difficulty paying the three-dollar weekly rent for his hall bed-room at the Aldine Ave. address. After Schwinn's visit and meeting with him, Tietzow began to commute by air between Chicago and Buffalo where ...
— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak
... is to women elevation, liberty? Men put the right of suffrage for themselves above all price, and count the denial of it the most severe punishment. If a man serving a term in State's prison has one friend outside who cares for him, that friend will get up a petition begging the Governor to commute his sentence, if for not more than forty-eight hours prior to its expiration, so that, when he comes out of prison he may not be compelled to suffer the disgrace of disfranchisement and may not be doomed to walk among his fellows with the mark of Cain upon his forehead. ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... advisable to separate the two questions of the sentence of death and the actual executions, and one can well imagine the conciliatory effect of a Royal Act of Clemency in the event of maturer consideration making it advisable to commute those sentences. ...
— Six days of the Irish Republic - A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics • Louis Redmond-Howard


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