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Commute   /kəmjˈut/   Listen
Commute

verb
(past & past part. commuted; pres. part. commuting)
1.
Exchange positions without a change in value.  Synonym: transpose.
2.
Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home.
3.
Change the order or arrangement of.  Synonyms: permute, transpose.
4.
Exchange a penalty for a less severe one.  Synonyms: convert, exchange.
5.
Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.  Synonyms: change, convert, exchange.  "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"
noun
1.
A regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work.



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... conjoined, even as poetry and music are repro- 378:3 duced in union by human memory. Disease has no in- telligence. Unwittingly you sentence yourself to suffer. The understanding of this will enable you to commute this 378:6 self-sentence, and meet every circumstance with truth. Disease is less than mind, and Mind can ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... accompanied his proffer to Burdick with a proclamation, although a similar procedure had been held to bring President Johnson's amnesties to the Court's notice.[119] In 1927, however, in sustaining the right of the President to commute a sentence of death to one of life imprisonment, against the will of the prisoner, the Court abandoned this view. "A pardon in our days," it said, "is not a private act of grace from an individual happening to possess power. It is a part of the Constitutional scheme. When granted ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... convicted him of authorship of the book. The Judges iniquitously held that to amount to a conviction of felony. They therefore sentenced him to death. He prayed Ralegh to intercede with the Queen to commute his punishment to banishment, 'that the land might not be charged with his blood.' Ralegh accepted the office, and Essex combined with him. Retailers of court gossip conjectured that his kindness was policy. They imagined that he and Essex were secretly allied, ...
— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing
... result was that whereas in former times the forces of an Afghan ruler consisted mainly of a militia, furnished by the chiefs of tribes who held land on condition of military service, and who stoutly resisted any attempt to commute this service for money payment, the amir had at his command a large standing army, and disposed of a substantial revenue paid direct to his treasury. Abdur Rahman executed or exiled all those whose political influence he saw reason to fear, or of whose disaffection ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... that fishes for him; for the baiting of your hook with a dead gudgeon or a roach and moving it up and down the water is too easy a thing to take up any time to direct you to do it. And yet, because I cut you short in that, I will commute for it by telling you that that was told me for a secret. It is this: Dissolve gum of ivy in oil of spike, and therewith anoint your dead bait for a pike, and then cast it into a likely place, and when it has lain a short time at the bottom, draw it towards the top of the water and so up the ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine


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