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US
/kəˈmɪʃən/
]
[ UK /kəmˈɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kəmˈɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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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)
he works on commission -
the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
the motor was out of commission
put the ships into commission - a group of representatives or delegates
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a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
the judge's charge to the jury -
a special group delegated to consider some matter
a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours - the act of committing a crime
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a special assignment that is given to a person or group
a confidential mission to London
his charge was deliver a message - an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
VERB
- place an order for
- charge with a task
- put into commission; equip for service; of ships
How To Use commission In A Sentence
- He moved to Paris in 1767, and after a couple of years had become so popular that he received regular commissions to write two or three operas a year for various theatres.
- Nursing commissioned officer ( NNCO ) is a special necessary colony. Educate to NNCO is a new thing.
- And I am certain the Commission of Inquiry will exonerate you in due course. MAMBO
- Most of the salespeople are on commission.
- Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
- The report criticized a former commissioner and two device division leaders for their role in approving Menaflex. FDA to Revoke Knee-Device Approval, Saying It Erred
- The commission will seek to arbitrate a resolution before handing down a decision in late summer.
- In 1537 it was ceded to Angelo Massimi, who commissioned Perino del Vaga to paint frescoes on each of the lateral walls and on the pilasters on either side of the entrance.
- A study by the OECD and Mexico's Federal Competition Commission (CFC) found that 31% of Mexican household spending went on products supplied in monopolistic or highly oligopolistic markets.
- When in the following October the nobody met Katsu Kaishu, the enlightened commissioners of the shogun's navy, it might have been with intent to assassinate him.