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com⋅mute
[kuh-myoot] 
verb, -mut⋅ed, -mut⋅ing, noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. |
| 2. | to exchange for another or for something else; give and take reciprocally; interchange. |
| 3. | to change: to commute base metal into gold. |
| 4. | to change (one kind of payment) into or for another, as by substitution. |
–verb (used without object)
| 5. | to travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back: He commutes to work by train. |
| 6. | to make substitution. |
| 7. | to serve as a substitute. |
| 8. | to make a collective payment, esp. of a reduced amount, as an equivalent for a number of payments. |
| 9. | Mathematics. to give the same result whether operating on the left or on the right. |
–noun
| 10. | a trip made by commuting: It's a long commute from his home to his office. |
| 11. | an act or instance of commuting. |
Origin:
1400–50; 1885–90 for def. 5; late ME < L commūtāre to change, replace, exchange, equiv. to com- com- + mūtāre to change
1400–50; 1885–90 for def. 5; late ME < L commūtāre to change, replace, exchange, equiv. to com- com- + mūtāre to change
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| com·mute (kə-myōōt') v. com·mut·ed, com·mut·ing, com·mutes v. intr.
[Middle English commuten, to transform, from Latin commūtāre : com-, com- + mūtāre, to change; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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