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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: commutation ticket
commutation ticket
n : a ticket good for several trips or to attend a season of
entertainments; sold at a reduced rate [syn:
season ticket
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Commutation ticket
Commutation
\Com`mu*ta"tion\, n. [L. commutatio: cf. F.
commutation.]
1. A passing from one state to another; change; alteration;
mutation. [R.]
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So great is the commutation that the soul then hated
only that which now only it loves. --South.
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2. The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
[Obs.]
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The use of money is . . . that of saving the
commutation of more bulky commodities. --Arbuthnot.
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3. (Law) The change of a penalty or punishment by the
pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a
sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment.
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Suits are allowable in the spiritual courts for
money agreed to be given as a commutation for
penance. --Blackstone.
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4. A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a
substitution of one form of payment for another, or one
payment for many, or a specific sum of money for
conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of
tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright;
commutation of rations.
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5. regular travel from a place of residence to a place where
one's daily work is performed; commuting. Most often, such
travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city.
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Angle of commutation (Astron.), the difference of the
geocentric longitudes of the sun and a planet.
Commutation of tithes, the substitution of a regular
payment, chargeable to the land, for the annual tithes in
kind.
Commutation ticket, a ticket, as for transportation, which
is the evidence of a contract for service at a reduced
rate. See 2d
Commute, 2.
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Commutation ticket
\Com`mu*ta“tion tick”et\
A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in
consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of
travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for
daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate,
such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city
and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepted from
the prohibition against special rates contained in the
Interstate Commerce Act of Feb. 4, 1887 (--24 Stat. 379), and
in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets were also
excepted as being
“obviously within the commuting
principle.”
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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