Both Uses

commute
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Drown, by Junot Diaz
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It was nearly a two-hour commute,
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commute = regular travel -- such as between home and work
The crackheads have their own man, Lucero, and some other guy who drives in from Paterson, the only full-time commuter in the area.†
Story 5

Definitions:

(1) (commute as in: commute from New Jersey)
regular travel -- such as between home and work
(2) (commute as in: commute the sentence)
to exchange a penalty for one that is less severe
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Other rare meanings include
- Changing one thing for another as in: "It was once believed that the philosopher's stone would commute lead to gold."
- In math, the commutative property indicates that the order in which two numbers are added or multiplied does not change their sum or product (2+3=3+2) and (4×7=7×4).