Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being substituted, interchanged, or revoked.
- adjective Accessible to commuters.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being exchanged or mutually changed; interchangeable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being commuted or interchanged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
commuted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective subject to alteration or change
- adjective capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or the code can be brutally direct, as it is in Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women, whereby the artist constructs a theater of heterosexual rape with a pictorial homosocial subtext--filling the intervals between male figures with the commutable spoils of swords, horses, and--yes--women, signifying an apparent hetero-male structure of commodity overlaid an otherwise evocative, but implicit, homoerotic voyeurism and phenomonology.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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From your $6 can of coffee you can make at least 25 full cups--five weeks' worth of commutable caffeine.
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Or the code can be brutally direct, as it is in Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women, whereby the artist constructs a theater of heterosexual rape with a pictorial homosocial subtext--filling the intervals between male figures with the commutable spoils of swords, horses, and--yes--women, signifying an apparent hetero-male structure of commodity overlaid an otherwise evocative, but implicit, homoerotic voyeurism and phenomonology.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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It's the eBay way, and just as eBay revolutionized the world of ecommerce (and eradicated the sole reliance on stores, set prices and accessing things within driving distance), we are now revolutionizing the world of work (and eradicating dependence on office buildings, the same set hours for everyone and working within a commutable distance.)
Maynard Webb: Adjusting Our Work-Life Balance in the Internet Economy Maynard Webb 2010
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(I assume he always had two since it is the second home allowance he is claiming) Guildford is emminently commutable.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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His constituency is commutable and on rare occasions he could take a hotel in London like ordinary folk who work late in the capital do.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I can either spend $300,000 on a house in the ghetto that needs a total rehab, $1,000,000 on a house that is livable and in a safe part of the city, $600,000 for a slightly larger house in a close in, somewhat commutable suburb, or $250,000 for a poorly constructed townhouse an hour and a half from where I work.
Use Target Savings To Beat Back Lifestyle Inflation | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The essay explores the dissonant moments in this allegorical translation from one historical moment to another, but also raises questions regarding the relationship between patriotic performance and the commutable construction of social space.
Article Abstracts 2006
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The 14 minutes is commutable by taking the whole population of Greater London most of whom have seen only very marginal changes and who were not in any case coughing their guts up in the fumes.
Steven Nolan: Five Live Debate on Mcr Transport Greening 2008
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They eventually chose a $434,000, 2,100-square-foot house less than two miles from Ms. Stroker's job and commutable entirely by bike paths.
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