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1. Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
    
2. (mathematics) exchange positions without a change in value
   "These operators commute with each other";
   - transpose
    
3. Change the order or arrangement of
   - permute, transpose
    
4. Exchange a penalty for a less severe one
   - convert, exchange
    
5. Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
   "He commuted his name";
   - change, exchange, convert

1. A regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work
   "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute"

Derived forms: commutes, commuted, commuting

Type of: alter, change, change by reversal, jaunt, journey, journeying, modify, replace, reverse, travel, trip, turn

Encyclopedia: Commute