English-Italian translations for commute

  • commutareChiedo alle autorità americane e a quelle texane di commutare la sentenza e di sospendere l'esecuzione della donna. I call on the Americans and on the Texas authorities to commute her sentence and to put a stay on her execution. Le dichiarazioni chiedevano alla Cina di commutare tutte le sentenze capitali pronunciate a seguito dei disordini in Tibet e nello Xinjiang. The statements called on China to commute any other death penalties passed in connection with the disturbances in Tibet and Xinjiang. Benché per questo procedimento fosse possibile commutare la pena di morte in ergastolo, l'accusa ha respinto questa possibilità alla fine di gennaio. Although, in this trial, the death sentence could have been commuted to lifelong imprisonment, the prosecution rejected this possibility at the end of January.
  • fare il pendolare

Definition of commute

  • 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

Examples

  • 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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