commute

English

/kəˈmjuːt/

verb
Definitions
  • 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
  • (intransitive) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commūtō.

Origin

Latin

commūtō

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