commission
noun
[ kəˈmɪʃ(ə)n ]
• an instruction, command, or role given to a person or group.
• "one of his first commissions was to redesign the Great Exhibition building"
Similar:
task,
employment,
job,
work,
piece of work,
project,
mission,
assignment,
undertaking,
exercise,
enterprise,
endeavour,
solution,
duty,
charge,
responsibility,
burden,
office,
• 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"
Similar:
committee,
board,
board of commissioners,
council,
panel,
directorate,
advisory body,
advisorate,
convocation,
delegation,
• a sum, typically a set percentage of the value involved, paid to an agent in a commercial transaction.
• "foreign banks may charge a commission"
Similar:
percentage,
brokerage,
share,
portion,
dividend,
premium,
fee,
consideration,
bonus,
gratuity,
tip,
honorarium,
cut,
take,
whack,
rake-off,
slice,
slice of the cake,
piece of the action,
divvy,
apportionment,
quantum,
moiety,
• a warrant conferring the rank of officer in an army, navy, or air force.
• "he has resigned his commission"
• the action of committing a crime or offence.
• "the commission of an arrestable offence"
commission
verb
• 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"
• appoint (someone) to the rank of officer in an army, navy, or air force.
• "he was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin commissio(n- ), from committere ‘entrust’ (see commit).
