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Plural of commute

regular plural

The plural of commute is commutes.

Forms of commute

Singularcommute /kəˈmjuːt/
Pluralcommutes
Countablecountable

Commutes in a sentence

  • He washes dishes in Manhattan. He commutes from Jersey, just like many others who can't afford Manhattan's ridiculous rents.From the entry jersey
  • She commutes to work because she does not live nearby and usually packs a lunch to save time.2020 March 24, Jingyan Teng, “Poverty alleviation factories resume operations in Ningxia”, in China Internet Information Center, archived…. From the entry Jingyuan
  • Sharing my predicament over a breakfast last week, he told me he commutes to his office every day by bike.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times. From the entry Tour de France
  • However, since T(z) commutes with A(z), the transformed system has coefficient matrix A(z)-zq'(z)I and hence is again meromorphic at infinity.2000, Werner Balser, Formal Power Series and Linear Systems of Meromorphic Ordinary Differential Equations, Springer, page 39. From the entry meromorphic
  • Martho, who has four children, commutes 45 minutes each way four days a week to a hospital for clinical work in echocardiology.2007 December 9, Anne Eisenberg, “What Did the Professor Say? Check Your iPod”, in New York Times. From the entry echocardiology

Meaning of commute

  1. verb 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.
  2. verb To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
  3. verb To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

Full definition of commute

Questions about the plural of commute

What is the plural of commute?
The plural of commute is commutes.
Is commute countable?
Commute is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: commute (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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