Thesaurus: commute

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1. 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.
2. v. i. To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
3. 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.
4. n. a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work
5. v. exchange positions without a change in value
6. v. travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
7. v. change the order or arrangement of
8. v. exchange a penalty for a less severe one
9. v. exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
10. 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. The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse. J. Harris The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. Macaulay. 1. To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation. He . . . thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind. Jer. Taylor. 2. To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
11. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of,as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or asingle thing for an aggregate; hence; to lessen; to diminish; as, tocommute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; tocommute tithes; to commute charges for fares.The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements,it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of thefirst "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, andcall them by the reverse. J. HarrisThe utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should becommuted from burning to beheading. Macaulay.
12. v:100 n. a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work v. exchange positions without a change in value v. travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home v. exchange a penalty for a less severe one