1. traveled regularly between home and work
Usage: past tense of commute
2. reduced a legal punishment to a less severe one
Usage: legal context; past tense of commute
3. exchanged or substituted one thing for another
Usage: formal; past tense of commute

Examples

• She commuted to the city by train every morning.
• He commuted forty miles each way to his job.
• The governor commuted the prisoner’s death sentence to life imprisonment.
• The judge commuted his sentence from ten years to five years.
• They commuted their monthly payments into one annual payment.
• The company commuted the pension benefits into a lump sum.