commute
• 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. 3 change (one kind of payment or obligation) for (another). — DERIVATIVES commutable adjective commuter noun. — ORIGIN Latin commutare, from 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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