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say it: kuh-MYOOT
commute is a verb and noun meaning "exchange positions without a change in value". It carries 6 recorded senses.
change the order or arrangement of
“Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word”
a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work
“there is standing room only on the high-speed commute”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for commute come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.