Commutation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A substitution, exchange, or interchange.
  • n. The substitution of one kind of payment for another.
  • n. The payment substituted.
  • n. The travel of a commuter.
  • n. Electricity Conversion of alternating to unidirectional current.
  • n. Electricity Reversal of current direction.
  • n. Law Reduction of a penalty to a less severe one.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
  • n. The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
  • n. Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.
  • n. Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.
  • n. The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State
  • n. Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.
  • n. The reversal of an electric current.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
  • n. The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
  • n. The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A passing from one state to another; alteration; change.
  • n. The act of giving one thing for another; exchange; barter.
  • n. The act of substituting one thing for another; substitution.
  • n. Specifically— In law, the change of a penalty or punishment from a greater to a less, as banishment instead of death.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Milit., the money value of allowances, such as quarters, fuel, forage, etc., taken in place of them.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
  • n. a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
  • n. the travel of a commuter
  • n. the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mercifulness    clemency    mercy    warrant    traveling    travelling    travel   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    change    alteration    mutation    barter    exchange   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    remission    arrearages    mitigation    abolishment    rehear    retire