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Verb: commute  ku'myoot
  1. Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
     
  2. (mathematics) exchange positions without a change in value
    "These operators commute with each other";
    - transpose
     
  3. Change the order or arrangement of
    - permute, transpose
     
  4. Exchange a penalty for a less severe one
    - convert, exchange
     
  5. Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
    "He commuted his name";
    - change, exchange, convert
Noun: commute  ku'myoot
  1. A regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work
    "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute"

Derived forms: commutes, commuted, commuting

Type of: alter, change, change by reversal, jaunt, journey, journeying, modify, replace, reverse, travel, trip, turn

Encyclopedia: Commute