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What does commute mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word commute? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
  2. (intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
  3. (mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
  4. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate.
    1. (transitive, finance) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments.
    2. (intransitive) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part.
    3. (transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
    4. (intransitive) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
Noun
  1. A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
  2. The route, time or distance of that journey.
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