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commutes

verb

Meaning

  1. To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
  2. Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
  3. A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
  4. The route, time or distance of that journey.
  5. To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
  6. To journey, to make a journey

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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