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US
/ˌkɑmjəˈteɪʃən/
]
[ UK /kˌɒmjuːtˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kˌɒmjuːtˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the travel of a commuter
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the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help - a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
- (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
How To Use commutation In A Sentence
- The exact rotor position is required while a permanent magnet brushless servo motor (PMBSM) is under commutation and control. Howere, position sensors have some fatal defects.
- The commutation is a virtual admission of guilt by Bush that the outing of Plame was part of a generalized conspiracy in the White House that involved major players, i.e. either Bush or Cheney themselves. Bush Impeachment �� Libby Commutation Makes it Imperative
- Each policy shall be endorsed stating that it cannot be assigned or surrendered and showing in monetary terms the extent to which benefits may be taken as a single cash payment as commutation or on death.
- Like a pardon, a commutation is a form of clemency, granted to the president by the Constitution. Archive 2007-07-01
- Or that the large number of prisoners removed from death row in recent years by commutation and technical legal appeal somehow prove that hundreds of innocent convicts are on the edge of state-sanctioned death.
- A main switching element is provided to turn ON and OFF an input voltage, and a synchronous commutating switching element is provided to perform synchronous commutation of a load current.
- He appealed for commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment.
- Thus, the commutation is a part of a cowardly coverup. The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq, Part Three: Desperation unto Bombing Iran?
- A similar provision covers the issue of pardon or commutation of sentence.
- There were recurrent scutages (payments for the commutation of military service) and tallages (arbitrary levies) on demesnes, which included boroughs.
