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Rarecommutes
The correct spelling is commutes.
How to pronounce commutes
verb
Say it like: Com-mut-es
The correct spelling is commutes. 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 For example: "to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket"
Usage Examples
“to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket”
“A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.”
“I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.”
Meanings
verb
- 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.To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
- 4.To journey, to make a journey
noun
- 1.A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
- 2.The route, time or distance of that journey.
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