commutation

  • 91Commutation — The conversion of a labour service into a sum of money payable to a lord …

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  • 92commutation — Synonyms and related words: agency, alternation, amends, atonement, balancing, battledore and shuttlecock, change, compensation, cooperation, counteraction, counterbalancing, counterchange, course, cross fire, crossing, delegation, deputation,… …

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  • 93commutation — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. substitution, replacement, compensation; see change 1 , 2 , exchange 1 , 3 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The act of exchanging or substituting: change, exchange, interchange, shift, substitution, switch, trade,… …

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  • 94commutation — com·mu·ta·tion || ‚kÉ’mjuː teɪʃn n. exchange, replacement; conversion; act of commuting (traveling back and forth regularly) …

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  • 95commutation — noun 1》 the action or process of commuting a judicial sentence or a legal obligation or entitlement. 2》 the process of commutating an electric current. 3》 Mathematics the property of having a commutative relation …

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  • 96commutation — n. 1. Exchange. 2. (Law.) Replacement (of a greater punishment by a less) …

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  • 97commutation — The right to receive an immediate cash sum in return for accepting smaller annual payments at some time in the future. This is usually associated with a pension in which certain life assurance policyholders can, on retirement, elect to take a… …

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  • 98commutation — n 1. exchange, substitution, switch, surrogation, subrogation; interchange, counterchange, shuffling, transposition; bartering, trading, buying and selling, traffic; reciprocation, retaliation, recompense, compensation, indemnification, indemnity …

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  • 99commutation — com·mu·ta·tion …

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  • 100commutation — com•mu•ta•tion [[t]ˌkɒm yəˈteɪ ʃən[/t]] n. 1) the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange 2) the changing of a prison sentence or other penalty to another less severe 3) the act of commuting, as to and from a place of… …

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