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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   commute

   • IPA[kəˈmyo͞ot]

   美式

   • v.
     travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis；reduce (a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death) to one less severe
   • n.
     a regular journey of some distance to and from one's place of work

   • verb: commute, 3rd person present: commutes, gerund or present participle: commuting, past tense: commuted, past participle: commuted

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis she commuted from Westport in to Grand Central Station 同義詞 travel to and from work, travel to and fro, travel back and forth, come and go, shuttle
   • 2. reduce (a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death) to one less severe he commuted the sentences of hundreds of convicts 同義詞 reduce, lessen, lighten, shorten, cut, ... 更多scale down, limit, curtail, attenuate, mitigate, moderate, modify, adjust反義詞 increase, uphold
   • ▪ change one kind of payment or obligation for (another) tithes were commuted into an annual sum varying with the price of corn 同義詞 exchange, change, interchange, substitute, swap, ... 更多trade, barter, switch, archaictruck
   • ▪ replace (an annuity or other series of payments) with a single payment if he had commuted some of his pension, he would have received $330,000
   • 3. (of two operations or quantities) have a commutative relationship operators which do not commute with each other

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a regular journey of some distance to and from one's place of work the daily commute