Meaning of commute In English

• 0 to make the same journey regularly between work and home:

  • It's exhausting commuting from Brighton to London every day.

• 1 to change one thing into another:

  • People used to believe that you could commute base metals into gold.

  • I think I'll commute my life insurance into an annuity.

  • Her sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.

• 2 a regular journey between work and home:

  • It's at least an hour's commute to work.

• 3 to travel regularly a distance between work and home:

  • She commutes to the city by car every day.

• 4 to change a punishment into another that is less severe:

  • The governor commuted the sentence and released the prisoner.

• 5 to make the same journey regularly from home to work:

  • He commuted every day, back and forth, an hour and 20 minutes each way.

  • Debbie works for an investment bank and is presently commuting between Paris and Luxemburg.

  • Duffy has commuted from Windsor to London for the past seven years.

• 6 to exchange one type of payment or investment for another type:

  • Pensioners who commute their pension for a lump sum sometimes face huge losses.

• 7 to replace a punishment with a less severe one:

  • Davis still faces execution unless the parole board commutes his sentence to life in prison.

• 8 a journey that someone does regularly from home to work:

  • a 90 minute/50km/30 mile commute Every morning during his 85-mile commute he has plenty of time to think about the day ahead.

  • a daily/weekly commute Cutting out the daily commute is the most obvious attraction of teleworking.

  • a long/short commute The survey provides evidence that low-paid workers are forced to endure long commutes into the capital.