v.
- travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis.
- reduce (a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death) to a less severe one.
▸change one kind of payment or obligation for (another).
▸replace (an annuity or other series of payments) with a single payment.
- Mathematics (of two operations or quantities) have a commutative relation.
Derivative
- commutable adj.
- commuter n.
Etymology
ME: from L. commutare, from com- ‘altogether’ + mutare ‘to change’; sense 1 derives from commutation ticket, the US term for a season ticket (because the daily fare is commuted to a single payment).