commutes

Goes to work

Commutes is the plural of commute, the regular journey between home and work: My commute takes forty minutes each way.

The verb means to make this journey regularly: She commutes by train.

In legal contexts, to commute a sentence is to reduce its severity: The governor commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment.

These senses connect through the idea of exchange—trading one location for another, or one punishment for a lesser one.

travel

traffic

Movement along routes

  • carpoolShared commute arrangement
  • busLarge passenger vehicle
  • trainRail vehicle or instruct

metro · subway · bicycle · highway · transit · journey · distance · route · timetable · schedule

mathematics

group

Assembled collection of things

operation · associative · element · identity · isomorphism · permutation · matrix · multiplication · addition · symmetry

Categories
Opposites
travel pattern

commutesreverse commutes

Traveling against peak traffic direction

stays put · telecommutes · remains

legal/sentence modification

commutesincreases

Becomes greater in amount

lengthens · extends · upholds · maintains · keeps

Phrases
Family

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

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G