commutable
adjective/kəˈmjuːtəbl/
/kəˈmjuːtəbl/
- (of a place or a distance) close enough or short enough to make travelling to work every day a possibility
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- (law) a commutable punishment can be made less severeTopics Crime and punishmentc2
- (formal) able to be exchanged
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in sense (3)): from Latin commutabilis, from commutare ‘exchange, interchange’ from com- ‘altogether’ + mutare ‘to change’. Sense (1) dates from the 1970s.
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