English-Spanish translations for commute

  • conmutarEn enero, el Gobernador Ryan de Illinois decidió conmutar las sentencias de muerte de 156 prisioneros en el corredor de la muerte. In January, Governor Ryan of Illinois decided to commute the death sentences of 156 prisoners on death row. Esto se demuestra en que el Gobernador de Illinois ha decidido hace poco conmutar 167 penas de muerte, y creo que se ha debido a que sintió el ímpetu y presión de la opinión pública internacional. This is shown by the fact that the Governor of Illinois recently decided to commute 167 death sentences, and I believe it was because he felt the impetus and pressure of international public opinion.
  • pendular

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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