English Dictionary

commute

IPA（発音記号）

/kəˈmjuːt/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 廃用

(transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part. / (transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

日本語の意味

金融や法の文脈では、一定期間に分割して支払うのではなく、一括して前払いすること。 / 刑法や犯罪学の文脈では、すでに科せられた刑罰を減輕する、すなわち軽減すること。

The debtor asked the bank to commute the remaining installments into a single lump-sum payment.

債務者は残りの分割払いを一括弁済できるよう銀行に依頼した。

意味（1）

(transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.

to commute the daily toll for a year's pass

意味（2）

(transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.”, in Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay), editor, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume V, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, OCLC 1069526323:

意味（3）

(transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash

意味（4）

(intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

He […] thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.

意味（5）

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

A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.

commutes （ present singular third-person ）

commuting （ participle present ）

commuted （ participle past ）

commuted （ past ）