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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

Example: to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket

Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

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

To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

Example: I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

To journey, to make a journey

Travel between home and workplace

Travel by public transportation such as by jeepney

Causing, or involved in commutation