English-French translations for commute

commuerEn janvier, le gouverneur Ryan de l’Illinois a décidé de commuer les peines de mort de 156 prisonniers du couloir de la mort. In January, Governor Ryan of Illinois decided to commute the death sentences of 156 prisoners on death row. Dans ces déclarations, il est demandé à la Chine de commuer toute autre peine capitale liée aux troubles survenus au Tibet et dans le Xinjiang. The statements called on China to commute any other death penalties passed in connection with the disturbances in Tibet and Xinjiang. Elle regrette profondément que la Chine n'ait pas tenu compte des demandes répétées de l'Union et de l'un de ses États membres de commuer la peine de mort prononcée à l'encontre de M. Shaikh. It deeply regrets the fact that China did not heed repeated calls by the European Union and one of its Member States for the death sentenced passed against Mr Shaikh to be commuted.
commuter

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
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 regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school
To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or ''vice versa''
To journey, to make a journey

to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket
to commute the daily toll for a years pass
His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

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