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Commission

noun

A special group delegated to consider some matter. Synonym: committee.

A fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary).

The act of granting authority to undertake certain functions. Synonym: commissioning.

The state of being in good working order and ready for operation. "The motor was out of commission"

A group of representatives or delegates. Synonyms: delegacy, delegation, deputation, mission.

A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something. Synonyms: charge, direction.

An official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces. Synonym: military commission.

The act of committing a crime. Synonyms: committal, perpetration.

A special assignment that is given to a person or group. Synonyms: charge, mission. "His charge was deliver a message"

verb

(past & past part. commissioned; pres. part. commissioning)

Put into commission; equip for service; of ships.

Place an order for.

Charge with a task.

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"Commission" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been put out of commission by the force of the explosion, and although the ship's operator had sent the radio distress signals, yet it was known that the nearest destroyers were 250 miles away, protecting another convoy and it was possible that military necessity might prevent their ...

— World's War Events, Volume III • Various

... did not tell you the name of the sergeant who ushered Philip Dalton into my shelter that night. His name was John Hampton, as fine a soldier as ever stepped. He joined the artillery when I got my commission. Poor Shock, for I knew him better by that name; he followed me with the fidelity of a dog; he always contrived something hot for me when we were almost starving, and any day he would have gone without that I might eat. And I believe that he would ...

— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn

... fever while he was writing, and the blood-and-thunder Magazine diction he adopted did not calm him. Two months afterward he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden. I got his manuscript before he died, and this is his version of the affair, ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... raise a howl from everybody. There are one or two of them quite ready for a chance of getting a slap at the legislature, while there's more than one man who would be glad to hawk it round the lobbies. Then his friends would have no more use for the Sheriff, and we might even get a commission sent down to straighten things up ...

— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss

... departed from his countenance; an entire change of expression had taken place: he stood up, erect, bold, eagle-eyed, with the look of one newly made a man by the form of indomitable will, and feeling, for the first time, man's terrible commission to destroy. In a moment, with the acquisition of new moods, he had acquired a new aspect. Hitherto, he had been tame, seemingly devoid of spirit—you have not forgotten the reproaches of his cousin, which actually conveyed an imputation ...

— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms

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