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.

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* 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 .

Verb

(obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.

To experience; to pass through a phase.

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The project is undergoing great changes.

To suffer or endure; bear with.

The victim underwent great trauma.

She had to undergo surgery because of her broken leg.