Definitions for commute

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commute com·mute

Spelling: [kuh-myoot]

IPA: /kəˈmyut/

Commute is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in commute (cemmotu).

Definitions for commute

noun

1. a trip made by commuting:
2. an act or instance of commuting.

verb (used with object)

1. to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one:
2. to exchange for another or for something else; give and take reciprocally; interchange.
3. to change:
4. to change (one kind of payment) into or for another, as by substitution.

verb (used without object)

1. to travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back:
2. to make substitution.
3. to serve as a substitute.
4. to make a collective payment, especially of a reduced amount, as an equivalent for a number of payments.
5. Mathematics. to give the same result whether operating on the left or on the right.

Origin of commute

1400-50; 1885-90 for def 5; late Middle English Latin commūtāre to change, replace, exchange, equivalent to com- com- + mūtāre to change

Examples for commute

The lead-in for traffic is a cheery: “Now a look at your morning commute.”

At the same time, he held out very little hope that anything could be done to commute the sentence.

It is evident that the man who passed the sentence could commute it, he said.

He seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties.

“I take like three, three-and-a-half hours out of the day just to commute back-and-forth,” he said.

He will spend the rest of his commute sedentary, and she upright.

Stephanie lives in the Bronx and works in Manhattan, a commute that should take 45 minutes.

Will you be her true natural father, or shall I commute paternity?

The first time I saw someone on my morning commute reading a copy.

The Governor refuses him a pardon, nor will he commute my son's sentence.