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1 —as in:
commute from New Jersey

Definition

regular travel — such as between home and work

She has a long commute to work.

commute = regular travel between home and work

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Audiobooks make the commute from home to school interesting.

commute = regular travel between two locations

The study shows that the time needed for average commute has increased again.

commute = regular travel between home and work

The soldiers, airmen, Marines, sailors, Coast Guardsmen, cadets, and everyone else in front of me began to shuffle their feet toward the door; it reminded me of commuters leaving a packed subway car, an odd resonance as I approached the open door two thousand feet in the air.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

commuters = people traveling between home and work

And the commute was quite easy now that the Labyrinth is back in service.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle

commute = regular journey

You can commute to Penn; you know how easy it is.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

commute = regularly travel back and forth

At the time he wrote these words, he was holding down a full-time job, flipping Quarter Pounders at a McDonald's on the main drag, commuting to work on a bicycle.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

commuting = travelling

The announcer got a lot of mileage out of the story, going on about the rubes with their clunker of a vehicle and yapping dog who were making thousands of New York commuters late for work.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

commuters = people traveling between home and work

I'll only be a twenty-minute train ride from your school, and I'll make the commute to see you every night.
Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss

commute = regular journey

Valentine, it costs more money than your father will make in his lifetime for me to fly to Earth and back to the Battle School again. I don't commute casually.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

commute = travel back and forth

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2 —as in:
commute the sentence

Definition

to exchange a penalty for one that is less severe

The governor commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment.

commuted = exchanged a penalty for one that is less severe

Other Uses (with this meaning)

She asked for commutation as an act of mercy.

commutation = reduction of a penalty

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

The Justice Department strongly opposed the petition, but the President commuted the 12-year sentence—cutting it in half.

commuted = exchange a penalty for one that is less severe

Some death sentences were later commuted; 920 men were eventually executed.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

commuted = reduced

"He'll go to the chair," said Atticus, "unless the Governor commutes his sentence."
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

commutes = exchanges a punishment for a less severe punishment

The problem was so significant in Illinois that in 2003, Governor George Ryan, a Republican, citing the unreliability of capital punishment, commuted the death sentences of all 167 people on death row.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy

commuted = reduced

And there was the Quack, who was petitioning to have his death penalty commuted.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

commuted = reduced

He was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to twenty years in 1973, of which he served only ten.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Colonel Aureliano Buendia, in spite of the violent recriminations of Ursula, refused to commute the sentence.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
But the doctor, a Captain Ono, asked the commanding officer if he would commute the sentence and give the man over to him, for purposes of instruction.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

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3 —as in:
commutative property of addition

Definition

math: the order in which two numbers are added or multiplied does not change their sum or product (2+3=3+2) and (4x7=7x4)

As in math, the commutative property works for this recipe. The order in which you add the ingredients doesn't matter.

commutative property = the order in which two numbers are added or multiplied does not change their sum or product (2+3=3+2) and (4x7=7x4)

The commutative property for multiplication is a lot like that of addition.

commutative property = the order in which two numbers are multiplied does not change their sum or product (4x7=7x4)

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