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Definition of "commutable" [com•mut•a•ble]

  • That can be substituted, interchanged, or revoked: a commutable prison sentence. (adjective)
  • Accessible to commuters: "Seattle's next most commutable island is Vashon” ( Islands). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "commutable" in a sentence
  • "Or the code can be brutally direct, as it is in Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women, whereby the artist constructs a theater of heterosexual rape with a pictorial homosocial subtext--filling the intervals between male figures with the commutable spoils of swords, horses, and--yes--women, signifying an apparent hetero-male structure of commodity overlaid an otherwise evocative, but implicit, homoerotic voyeurism and phenomonology."
  • "From your $6 can of coffee you can make at least 25 full cups--five weeks' worth of commutable caffeine."
  • "It's the eBay way, and just as eBay revolutionized the world of ecommerce (and eradicated the sole reliance on stores, set prices and accessing things within driving distance), we are now revolutionizing the world of work (and eradicating dependence on office buildings, the same set hours for everyone and working within a commutable distance.)"