commute

To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum

to commute market rents for a premium

to commute daily fares for a season ticket

(intransitive)(intransitive, 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.

A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.

(Canada, UK, US, intransitive)To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

(Philippines, intransitive)To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.

(intransitive)To journey, to make a journey

By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.

A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.

The route, time or distance of that journey.