- (v.i.) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
- (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 pay or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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