commute

Meanings

Verb

• To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
• Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
• To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
• To journey, to make a journey

Noun

• A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
• The route, time or distance of that journey.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin commūtō.
• From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.