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Another word for commutation

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Noun

  1. The act of exchanging or substituting

      1. To trade one thing for another.
      2. To exchange (one thing) for another.
      3. An exchange of one thing for another.
      1. The act or an instance of transposing.
      2. The state of being transposed.
      3. Something transposed.
      1. The business of buying and selling commodities, products, or services; commerce.
      2. A branch or kind of business:
      3. The people working in or associated with a business or industry:
      1. An exchange or a swap, especially one done secretly.
      2. A transference or shift, as of opinion or attention.
      3. A device used to break or open an electric circuit or to divert current from one conductor to another.
      1. The act or an instance of substituting.
      2. The state of being substituted.
      3. One that is substituted; a replacement.
      1. To exchange (one thing) for another of the same class:
      2. To move or transfer from one place or position to another.
      3. To alter (position or place).
      1. To switch each of (two things) into the place of the other.
      2. To give and receive mutually; exchange.
      3. To cause to succeed each other in a series or pattern; alternate:
      1. To give in return for something received; trade:
      2. To give and receive reciprocally; interchange:
      3. To give up for a substitute:
      1. To cause to be different:
      2. To give a completely different form or appearance to; transform:
      3. To give and receive reciprocally; interchange:
    See also:

    substitute

    change

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Another word for commutation

Noun
      1. The act of compensating or the state of being compensated.
      2. Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss.
      3. The increase in size or activity of one part of an organism or organ that makes up for the loss or dysfunction of another.
      1. The act or process of replacing or of being replaced; substitution.
      2. One that replaces, especially a person assigned to a vacant military position.
      3. The act of returning each item that has been selected in a subset from a group before making another selection.
      1. The act or an instance of substituting.
      2. The state of being substituted.
      3. One that is substituted; a replacement.
    See also:

    exchange

    change

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Sentence Examples

  • As time went on these practices of commutation became more and more frequent.

  • As constable of Dundee he secured the commutation of the death penalty on minor offenders under his jurisdiction, and his expressed maxim was " in the greatest crimes it is thought wisest to pardon the multitude and punish the ringleaders."

  • On the commutation of vows and tithes.

  • In the case of hop-grounds, orchards, fruit-plantations and gardens power was given to the commissioners to value them separately, according to the average rate of composition for the seven years preceding Christmas 1835, and to fix an ordinary and an extraordinary charge for tithes thereof, the former for such lands going out of cultivation, the latter for such as were thereafter newly cultivated; lands subject to the latter were exempted during their first years of cultivation; and such lands were only subject to it if situated in a parish in which an extraordinary charge had been distinguished at the time of commutation (6 & 7 Will.

  • (8) The commutation of the twenty-two letters is effected by the last letter of the alphabet taking the place of the first, the last but one the place of the second, and so forth.

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