commission
Meaning of commission
noun
- an instruction, command, or role given to a person or group.
one of his first commissions was to redesign the Great Exhibition building
he received a commission to act as an informer
- a group of people entrusted by a government or other official body with authority to do something.
a commission was appointed to investigate the allegations
- a sum, typically a set percentage of the value involved, paid to an agent in a commercial transaction.
foreign banks may charge a commission
he sold cosmetics on commission
- a warrant conferring the rank of officer in an army, navy, or air force.
he has resigned his commission
she intended to apply for a commission in the army
- the action of committing a crime or offence.
the commission of an arrestable offence
the errors are of omission rather than commission
- order or authorize the production of (something).
the portrait was commissioned by his widow in 1792
- bring (something newly produced) into working condition.
we had a few hiccups getting the heating equipment commissioned
the aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1945
- appoint (someone) to the rank of officer in an army, navy, or air force.
he was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers
Middle English: via Old French from Latin commissio(n- ), from committere ‘entrust’ (see commit).
Information about commission
- The plural form of commission is: commissions.
- Languages in which commission is used:
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Hyphenation of commission
com-mis-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- commission is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
commission synonyms
Meaning committee:
Meaning commissioning:
Meaning deputation:
deputation, delegation, delegacy, mission
Meaning charge:
Meaning perpetration:
Meaning mission:
Meaning a piece of work to be done or undertaken:
Meaning the state of having paid work:
Meaning a responsibility or duty:
Meaning activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result:
Meaning an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim:
Meaning a task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study:
Meaning a formal pledge or promise to do something:
Meaning activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness:
Meaning a project or undertaking, especially a bold or complex one:
Meaning an attempt to achieve a goal:
Meaning a means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation:
Meaning a task or action that one is required to perform as part of one's job:
Meaning the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone:
Meaning a load, typically a heavy one:
Meaning a duty attaching to one's position:
Meaning a group of people constituted as the decision-making body of an organization:
Meaning an advisory, deliberative, or administrative body of people formally constituted and meeting regularly:
Meaning a small group of people brought together to investigate or decide on a particular matter:
Meaning the board of directors of a company:
Meaning a large formal assembly of people:
Meaning a rate, number, or amount in each hundred:
Meaning the business of acting as a broker:
Meaning a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute:
Meaning a part of a whole:
Meaning a sum of money paid regularly (typically annually) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves):
Meaning an amount to be paid for a contract of insurance:
Meaning a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services:
Meaning a payment or reward:
Meaning a sum of money added to a person's wages as a reward for good performance:
Meaning a tip given to a waiter, taxi driver, etc:
Meaning the pointed or rounded end or extremity of something slender or tapering:
Meaning a payment given for professional services that are rendered nominally without charge:
Meaning a share of the profits from something:
Meaning a scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time:
Meaning a sharp or resounding blow:
Meaning a thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion:
Meaning a dividend or share, especially of profits earned by a cooperative:
Meaning the action or result of apportioning something:
Meaning a discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents:
Meaning each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided:
Meaning perpetrate or carry out (a mistake, crime, or immoral act):
Meaning the carrying out of a plan, order, or course of action:
Meaning an act of presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment:
Meaning request (something) to be made, supplied, or served:
Meaning give official permission for or approval to (an undertaking or agent):
Meaning be evidence of; indicate:
Translation of commission
- Italian: commissione, missione, provvigione, incaricare, commissionare
- French: mission, commission, charger
- Spanish: misión, comisión, encargar, encomendar, comisionar
- German: Provision
- Portuguese: comissão, encarregar
Words that rhyme with commission
Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion
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