Commutation

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  • noun. A substitution, exchange, or interchange.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The substitution of one kind of payment for another.
  • noun. The payment substituted.
  • noun. The travel of a commuter.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Conversion of alternating to unidirectional current.
  • noun. Reversal of current direction.
  • noun. Reduction of a penalty to a less severe one.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A passing from one state to another; alteration; change.
  • noun. The act of giving one thing for another; exchange; barter.
  • noun. The act of substituting one thing for another; substitution.
  • noun. Specifically— In law, the change of a penalty or punishment from a greater to a less, as banishment instead of death.
  • noun. The substitution of one sort of payment for another, or of a money payment in lieu of the performance of compulsory duty or labor, or of a single payment in lieu of a number of successive payments, usually at a reduced rate. See commutation-ticket.
  • noun. Milit., the money value of allowances, such as quarters, fuel, forage, etc., taken in place of them.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
  • noun. The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
  • noun. The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State.
  • noun. A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances.
  • noun. regular travel from a place of residence to a place where one's daily work is performed; commuting. Most often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city.
  • noun. the difference of the geocentric longitudes of the sun and a planet.
  • noun. the substitution of a regular payment, chargeable to the land, for the annual tithes in kind.
  • noun. a ticket, as for transportation, which is the evidence of a contract for service at a reduced rate. See 2d Commute, 2.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
  • noun. The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
  • noun. Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.
  • noun. Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.
  • noun. The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State
  • noun. Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.
  • noun. The reversal of an electric current.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
  • noun. a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
  • noun. the travel of a commuter
  • noun. the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
  • Word Usage
    ""The cash payment in commutation of leave under this paragraph shall equal the compensation that such employee would have received had he remained in the service until the expiration of the period of such leave.""
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