commute

verb

• 1 [no object] travel some distance between one’s home and place of work on a regular basis:he commuted from Corby to Kentish Town

• 2 [with object] reduce (a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death) to another less severe one:the governor commuted the sentence to fifteen years' imprisonment
• (commute something for/into) change one kind of payment or obligation for (another):tithes were commuted into an annual sum varying with the price of corn
• replace (an annuity or other series of payments) with a single payment: if he had commuted some of his pension he would have received £330,000

• 3 [no object] Mathematics (of two operations or quantities) have a commutative relation:operators which do not commute with each other

noun

• a regular journey of some distance to and from one’s place of work: the daily commute