Commute vs. Pardon
Commuteverb
To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
Commuteverb
To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
Commuteverb
To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
Commuteverb
To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
Commuteverb
To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
Commuteverb
Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
Commuteverb
(intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
Commuteverb
(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
Commutenoun
A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
Commutenoun
The route, time or distance of that journey.
Commuteverb
To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.
Commuteverb
To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
Commuteverb
To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
Commuteverb
to travel regularly from a place of residence to another place, such as where one's daily work is performed. Often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city; as, to commute to work.
Commuteverb
transpose and remain equal in value;
Commuteverb
travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
Commuteverb
change the order or arrangement of;
Commuteverb
exchange a penalty for a less severe one
Commuteverb
exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category;
Pardonnoun
Forgiveness for an offence.
Pardonnoun
(legal) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
Pardonverb
(transitive) To forgive.
Pardonverb
(transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
Pardonverb
To grant an official pardon for a crime; unguilt.
Pardoninterjection
Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.
Pardonnoun
The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
Pardonnoun
An official warrant of remission of penalty.
Pardonnoun
The state of being forgiven.
Pardonnoun
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amnesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
Pardonverb
To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; - applied to the offender.
Pardonverb
To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; - applied to offenses.
Pardonverb
To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
Pardonverb
To give leave (of departure) to.
Pardonnoun
the act of excusing a mistake or offense
Pardonnoun
a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
Pardonnoun
the formal act of liberating someone
Pardonverb
accept an excuse for;
Pardonverb
grant a pardon to;
Pardonnoun
the action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offence
Pardonnoun
a cancellation of the legal consequences of an offence or conviction
Pardonnoun
an indulgence, as widely sold in medieval Europe.
Pardonverb
forgive or excuse (a person, error, or offence)
Pardonverb
release (an offender) from the legal consequences of an offence or conviction, and often implicitly from blame
Pardonverb
used to indicate that someone is justified in doing or thinking a particular thing given the circumstances
Pardoninterjection
a request to a speaker to repeat something because one did not hear or understand it
Pardon
A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.Pardons can be granted in many countries when individuals are deemed to have demonstrated that they have , or are otherwise considered to be deserving of them.
