To atone; to compensate; to stand in the place of; as, one penalty commutes for another.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To exchange; to put one thing in the place of another; to give or receive one thing for another; as, to commute our labors; to commute pain for pleasure.
2. In law, to exchange one penalty or punishment for another of less severity; as, to commute death for transportation.
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.
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.
One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.
Substitution Roget’s Thesaurus §147
N. substitution, commutation, supplanting, metaphor, metonymy, substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum, shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat, double, changeling, quid pro quo, alternative, representative, palimpsest, price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent
V. substitute, put in the place of, change for, make way for, give place to, supply the place of, take the place of, supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute, step into stand in the shoes of, jury rig, make a shift with, put up with, borrow from peter to pay paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize, commute, redeem, compound for
Adv. instead, in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of, faute de mieux
Interchange Roget’s Thesaurus §148
N. interchange, # exchange, commutation, permutation, intermutation, reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement, shuffling, alternation, reciprocity, castling, hocus-pocus, interchangeableness, interchangeability, recombination, combination 48, 84, barter, tit for tat, cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock, quid pro quo
V. interchange, exchange, counterchange, bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute, give and take, return the compliment, play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock, retaliate, requite, rearrange, recombine
Adj. interchanged, substituted, reciprocal, vicarious, mutual, subdititious, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent, combinatorial, recombinant
Adv. in exchange, instead, vice versa, in place of, mutatis mutandis, in lieu of, backwards and forwards, in the stead of, by turns, in the room of, turn and turn about, faute de mieux, each in his turn, 2, everyone in his turn, complex change
Compromise Roget’s Thesaurus §774
N. compromise, commutation, composition, middle term, mezzo termine, compensation, abatement of differences, adjustment, mutual concession
V. compromise, commute, compound, take the mean, split the difference, meet one halfway, give and take, come to terms, submit to arbitration, abide by arbitration, patch up, bridge over, arrange, straighten out, adjust, differences, agree, make the best of, make a virtue of necessity, take the will for the deed, 1, property in general
No Bible verses found for "Commute".