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vertauschen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • commute verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
  • swap verb To exchange one thing for another.
  • transpose verb To swap the order or position of two or more things.

Senses

vertauschen is used for these senses in English:

  • commute 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
  • commute (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
  • transpose (transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.

commute — full definition

  1. verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
  2. noun The regular journey between home and work.
  3. verb To reduce a legal penalty or sentence to something less severe.

swap — full definition

  1. verb To exchange one thing for another.
  2. noun An exchange of two comparable things.
  3. noun A financial contract in which two parties exchange streams of payments, such as interest rates.

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