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Meaning Of Commute
v. t.
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.
v. i.
To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to
effect a commutation.
v. i.
To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by
part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.