verb To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen.
to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum
verb To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
to commute the daily toll for a year's pass
verb To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
verb To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
verb To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
verb Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
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noun A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.