meaning of commute
1. 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; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.
2. To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
3. To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a years travel over a route.
4. exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into
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Related Words
commute | commuted | commuter | commuter traffic | commuter train |
