Commute vs Relocate - What's the difference?

commute | relocate |

As verbs the difference between commute and relocate

is that commute is while relocate is to move (something) from one place to another.

commute

English

Verb

(commut)

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

I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

(finance) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments.

To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part.

to commute for a year's travel over a route

(transitive, legal, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

His prison sentence was commuted to probation.

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

* (rfdate) Jeremy Taylor:

He thinks it unlawful to commute , and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.

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.

to commute''' tithes; to '''commute charges for fares

* Macaulay

The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.

(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 .

Derived terms

* commuter * commuting

Noun

(en noun)

A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

The route, time or distance of that journey.

relocate

English

Verb

(en-verb)

to move (something) from one place to another.

We had to relocate the magazine rack because we bruised our shins on it too frequently when it was near the door.

to change one's domicile or place of business.

Alfred relocated to Colorado Springs to take advantage of the boom in the defense industry.