verb
- to travel regularly between home and work
- to change a punishment to a less severe one
Usage: legal
noun
- a regular journey between home and work
Examples
- I commute to the city by train every morning.
- She has a long commute of two hours each way.
- Many people commute from the suburbs to downtown offices.
- The governor decided to commute the prisoner’s death sentence to life imprisonment.
- His daily commute takes him through heavy traffic.
- The judge commuted her sentence from ten years to five years.
- They moved closer to work to shorten their commute.