com·mut·a·ble
adjective/kəˈmjuːtəbl/
/kəˈmjuːtəbl/
- (of a place or a distance) close enough or short enough to make travelling to work every day a possibility
上下班方便的;(离工作地点)近的 - (law) a commutable punishment can be made less severe
Topics Crime and punishmentc2(刑罚)可减轻的 - (formal) able to be exchanged
可变换的;可兑换的
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.