verb
- travels regularly between home and work
- reduces or changes a legal punishment to a less severe one
- exchanges or substitutes one thing for another
Usage: legal
Usage: formal
noun
- regular journeys between home and work
Examples
- She commutes to the city every day by train.
- He commutes forty miles to his office.
- The governor commutes death sentences to life imprisonment.
- The judge commutes the fine to community service.
- My daily commute takes an hour each way.
- Traffic makes her commute very stressful.
- Many people have long commutes in big cities.