English Explanatory Dictionary

commission

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
  2. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
  3. The thing to be done as agent for another.
  4. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
  5. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
  6. The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error).
verb
  1. To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
  2. To place an order for (often a piece of art).
  3. To put (a ship or boat, etc.) into active service.
noun
  1. A shirt or chemise.

Pronunciation

/kəˈmɪʃən/ en-us-commission.ogg

Word forms

commission commissions commissioning commissioned

Etymology

From Middle English commissioun, from Old French commission, from Latin commissiō (“sending together; commission”), from prefix com- (“with”) + noun of action missiō (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mittō (“to send”) + noun of action suffix -iō.

Synonyms

committee

Antonyms

omission

Derived words

anticommission commission agent commissional commissionary commission bid commission breath commission de bene esse commissionee commissioner commissionless commissionship decommission discommission European Commission Great Commission housing commission intercommission liquor commission noncommission out of commission override one's commission royal commission subcommission trailing commission truth commission commissionable commissioning editor overcommission recommission re-commission smish

Translations

Albanian: komision Southern Altai: кӱрее Arabic: لَجْنَة Armenian: հանձնաժողով Armenian: հանձնախումբ Armenian: կոմիտե Azerbaijani: komissiya Belarusian: камі́сія Bengali: কমিশন Bulgarian: коми́сия Catalan: comissió Chinese Mandarin: 委員會 /委员会 Czech: komise Danish: kommission Danish: undersøgelseskommission Dutch: commissie Esperanto: komisiono Finnish: komitea Finnish: toimikunta Finnish: valtuuskunta Finnish: komissio French: commission Georgian: კომისია German: Kommission German: Ausschuss Greek: επιτροπή Hindi: आयोग Hindi: कमीशन Hungarian: bizottság Indonesian: komisi Irish: coimisiún Italian: commissione Japanese: 委員会 Kazakh: комиссия Khmer: គណៈកម្មការ Korean: 위원회 Macedonian: комисија Malay: suruhanjaya Malay: komisi Norwegian Bokmål: kommisjon Occitan: comission Persian: کمیسیون Polish: komisja Portuguese: comissão Romanian: comisie Russian: коми́ссия Serbo-Croatian: поверѐнство Serbo-Croatian: повјерѐнство Serbo-Croatian: комѝсија Serbo-Croatian: poverènstvo Serbo-Croatian: povjerènstvo Serbo-Croatian: komìsija Slovak: komisia Slovene: komisija
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