commuted

Went to work

Commuted is the past tense of commute.

Most often it describes regular travel between home and work: She commuted forty minutes each way.

In legal contexts, commuted means a sentence was reduced: The governor commuted his death sentence to life in prison.

Less commonly, it refers to exchanging one form of payment for another.

travel

metro

Urban rail transit

  • busLarge passenger vehicle
  • trainRail vehicle or instruct
  • subwayUnderground transit passage

tram · carpool · vanpool · ferry · shuttle · bicycle · scooter · express · transit · fare

legal

sentence

Complete thought, grammatically

mercy · reprieve · mitigation · parole · probation · amnesty · reduction · governor · appeal · petition

suburban

sprawl

Extend in disorderly fashion

outskirts · exurb · neighborhood · driveway · garage · highway · freeway · traffic · congestion · parking

routine

daily

Per diem, repeated

monotonous · repetitive · scheduled · mechanical · automatic · consistent · structured · grinding · tedious · familiar

Categories
Opposites
legal sentence reduction

commutedaggravated

Intensified or vexed

increased · extended · executed · upheld · maintained

travel/transportation method

commutedtelecommuted

Worked from a distance

teleworked · teleported

exchange/conversion

commutedretained

Continued to hold

kept · preserved · maintained · unaltered · unconverted

Phrases
Family

commute, commuter, commuting, commutes, commuters, commutation, commutative, commutator, commutable

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G