commission

Forms

1.A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
2.An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
- David received his commission after graduating from West Point.
- Let him see our commission.
3.The thing to be done as agent for another.
- I have three commissions for the city.
4.A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
- A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.
- The company's sexual harassment commission made sure that every employee completed the on-line course.

1.To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
- James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents.
- Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first solider^([sic – meaning soldier]) to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
2.To place an order for (often a piece of art).
- He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months.
3.To put (a ship or boat, etc.) into active service.
- The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII.
- The 1.7 mile-long conveyor system was commissioned in November 2022, and will remove one million lorry movements from the roads around West London.

Common· #1567

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.