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Commute   /kəmjˈut/   Listen
Commute

verb
(past & past part. commuted; pres. part. commuting)
1.
Exchange positions without a change in value.  Synonym: transpose.
2.
Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home.
3.
Change the order or arrangement of.  Synonyms: permute, transpose.
4.
Exchange a penalty for a less severe one.  Synonyms: convert, exchange.
5.
Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.  Synonyms: change, convert, exchange.  "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"
noun
1.
A regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work.



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"Commute" Quotes from Famous Books



... right of the lord to fetter the peasant to the soil and to control his marriage Leopold refused to restore in any part of his dominions; but, while in parts of Bohemia he succeeded in maintaining the right given by Joseph to the peasant to commute his personal service for a money payment, in Hungary he was compelled to fall back upon the system of Theresa, and to leave the final settlement of the question to the Diet. Twenty years later the statesman who emancipated ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... decided absolutely that a particular vow is not to be observed, this is called a "dispensation" from that vow; but if some other obligation be imposed in lieu of that which was to have been observed, the vow is said to be "commuted." Hence it is less to commute a vow than to dispense from a vow: both, however, are in the power of ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... job was the humble position of janitor in the United Brethren Church, and even now his favorite reminiscence is the difficulty he had in making the old wood stove function properly. The thrifty farmers in those days were accustomed to commute part of their dues in cord wood for the church, and often the quality they supplied was not of the best. The boy became a member of the Church, a membership which is ...
— The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox • Charles E. Morris
... a royal palace or the shrine of a saint, a sanctuary protected by special pains and penalties; the burgess stands to the king in the same relation as the widow and the orphan; to do him wrong is an outrage against the royal majesty. Next comes the right of trade. The burgesses are allowed to commute their servile dues and obligations for a fixed money-rent, that they may be at liberty for pursuits more lucrative than agriculture. They also receive a licence to hold a weekly market, and possibly a yearly fair as well; it is agreed that all disputes of traders, which arise in ...
— Medieval Europe • H. W. C. Davis
... adopted in Mr. Gladstone's Land Bill was to commute the rent-charges, offering the landlord, as a general rule, twenty years' purchase on the net rental of the estate (that is to say, the rent received by him after deducting all outgoings), and paying him the purchase-money in L3 per cent. stock taken at par. The stock was to be advanced ...
— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.


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