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commutable

/kəˈmjudəbəl/
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Definitions of commutable
  1. adjective
    subject to alteration or change
    “the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment”
    synonyms:
    alterable
    (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe
    convertible, transformable, translatable, transmutable
    capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy
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    antonyms:
    incommutable
    not subject to alteration or change
    inconvertible, untransmutable
    not capable of being changed into something else
    unalterable
    of a sentence; that cannot be changed
  2. adjective
    capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent
    synonyms: substitutable
    exchangeable
    suitable to be exchanged
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