Commute

From Latin commÅ«tÅ

Full definition of commute

(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.
(transitive, finance) To pay out the lump-sum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments.
(intransitive) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part.to commute for a year's travel over a route
(transitive, legal, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
(intransitive) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

unknown date Jeremy Taylor:He ... thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.

(intransitive, mathematics) To engage in a commutative operation.A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
(algebra, category theory, of a diagram of morphisms) Such that any two sequences of morphisms with the same initial and final objects as one another will have the same value on any element in the initial object.
To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate.to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares

MacaulayThe utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.