commuter


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
commute/kəˈmjuːt/
verb
  • 1 travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis.
  • 2 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.

  • 3 Mathematics (of two operations or quantities) have a commutative relation.
– derivatives
commutable adjective,
commuter noun.
– origin 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).
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