Definition:
- (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 obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
- (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.
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