Traveled regularly between home and work, or had a legal sentence reduced to something lighter.
From Latin 'commutare' (to exchange or change), from 'com-' (with) and 'mutare' (to change). The legal sense of reducing a sentence and the travel sense both emphasize exchanging or substituting one thing for another.
The 1950s suburban explosion was built on the 'commute'—people would exchange long city commutes for affordable suburban houses, reshaping entire nations' geography and culture!
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