SAT vocabulary
Commutation
The action or process of commuting a judicial sentence; the substitution of one form of payment or service for another.
Example
"The governor granted a commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment."
Etymology
From Latin 'commutare' meaning 'to often change, to exchange'.
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