COMMISSION | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of commission in English commissionverb uk /kəˈmɪʃ.ən/ us /kəˈmɪʃ.ən/

commission verb (REQUEST WORK)

Add to word list Add to word list [ T ] to formally choose someone to do a special piece of work, or to formally ask for a special piece of work from someone: The newspaper commissioned a series of articles on the worst excesses of the fashion industry. She's commissioned an artist to paint her portrait.

• A set of stamps has been commissioned in commemoration of Independence Day.
• They commissioned me to write a series of articles on language.
• He commissioned a report into the disaster.

Applying for a job

• acqui-hire
• advertisement
• anoint
• anointed
• applicant
• employ
• employable
• employment
• employment agency
• enlisted
• equality, diversity and inclusion
• nominate
• nominee
• reapplication
• reappointment
• recommission
• recruitment
• recruitment drive
• referee
• speculative

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commission verb (MAKE OFFICER)

[ T usually passive ]   military   specialized to give someone the official authority to be an officer in the armed forces: be commissioned as Grandfather was commissioned as Group Captain in the RAF just before the war. Joining or leaving the army

• absent without leave
• anti-draft
• buy someone out phrasal verb
• call
• call someone up phrasal verb
• cashier
• conscript
• conscription
• desert
• deserter
• desertion
• draft
• draftee
• enlistment
• join up phrasal verb
• re-enlist
• re-enlistment
• re-up
• recruit
• selective service

See more results » commissionnoun uk /kəˈmɪʃ.ən/ us /kəˈmɪʃ.ən/

commission noun (GROUP)

[ C, + sing/pl verb ] a group of people who have been formally chosen to discover information about a problem or examine the reasons why the problem exists: commission on a commission on alcohol abuse/racial tensionset up a commission The government has set up a commission to investigate the problem of inner city violence.establish a commission The premier said he would establish a commission to investigate the scandal.

• A commission has just been appointed to investigate fraud claims.
• Last week the commission published its long-awaited report on the problem of teenage pregnancies.
• A commission has been set up to look at racial tension in the area.
• The commission is due to report next week.

Organizations, Societies & clubs

• academy
• action committee
• Assn
• Assoc.
• brotherhood
• co-op
• collegium
• housing association
• insignia
• membership
• organization
• Panhellenic
• royal commission
• search committee
• secret society
• secretary
• select committee
• semi-public
• sister
• trust

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commission noun (PAYMENT)

[ C or U ] a payment to someone who sells goods that is directly related to the amount sold, or a system that uses such payments: by commission Is she paid a regular wage or is it by commission only?on commission Most of the work I do is on commission.get a commission on She gets a 15 percent commission on every machine she sells. Earning money

• assessable
• bank
• base pay
• basic
• basic income
• coin
• feather your own nest idiom
• gainful
• gross
• laugh
• non-wage
• nonearning
• not get out of bed for something idiom
• on commission
• operating
• salaried
• scrape a living idiom
• starting salary
• stipend
• stoppage

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Payment methods

commission noun (WORK)

[ C ] a request to do a special piece of work: [ + to infinitive ] She's just got a commission to paint Sir Ellis Pike's wife.do a commission Do you do commissions?take a commission She doesn't take commissions. Applying for a job

• acqui-hire
• advertisement
• anoint
• anointed
• applicant
• employ
• employable
• employment
• employment agency
• enlisted
• equality, diversity and inclusion
• nominate
• nominee
• reapplication
• reappointment
• recommission
• recruitment
• recruitment drive
• referee
• speculative

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commission noun (CRIME)

[ U ] formal the act of committing a crime: the commission of the crime/offence/murder Obeying & breaking the law

• abide
• abide by something phrasal verb
• adhere
• adhere strictly to something
• adhere to something phrasal verb
• afoul
• buck
• comply
• contravene
• derogate
• derogation
• enforcer
• fall foul of something idiom
• flout
• follow instructions
• guilty
• infringement
• perpetrate
• venal
• violation

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commission noun (MILITARY)

[ C ]   military   specialized the official authority to be an officer in the armed forces Joining or leaving the army

• absent without leave
• anti-draft
• buy someone out phrasal verb
• call
• call someone up phrasal verb
• cashier
• conscript
• conscription
• desert
• deserter
• desertion
• draft
• draftee
• enlistment
• join up phrasal verb
• re-enlist
• re-enlistment
• re-up
• recruit
• selective service

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Idioms

in commission out of commission (Definition of commission from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

commission | American Dictionary

commissionnoun us /kəˈmɪʃ·ən/

commission noun (GROUP)

Add to word list Add to word list [ C ] a group of people who have been formally chosen and given the authority to get information about a problem or to perform other special duties: Congress appointed a commission to study immigration policy.

commission noun (WORK REQUEST)

[ C ] a formal request to do a special piece of work for payment: She received a commission to paint the governor’s portrait.

commission noun (MILITARY)

[ C ] the official authority to be an officer in the armed forces: She received her commission as a lieutenant in the US Army.

commission noun (CRIME)

[ U ] the act of doing something that is illegal or considered wrong: the commission of a crime

commission noun (PAYMENT)

[ C/U ] a system of payment based on a percentage of the value of sales or other business done, or a payment to someone working under such a system: [ C ] As a real estate agent, her commission is between 4% and 6% on every sale. commissionverb [ T ] us /kəˈmɪʃ·ən/

commission verb [T] (WORK REQUEST)

to choose someone to do a piece of work, or to have a piece of work done: The newspaper commissioned a series of articles on the fashion industry. (Definition of commission from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

commission | Business English

commissionnoun uk /kəˈmɪʃən/ us Add to word list Add to word list [ C or U ]   COMMERCE a payment to someone who sells homes, products, investments, etc., which is directly related to the amount they sell, or the practice of receiving these payments: make/pay/receive a commission The airline agreed to pay travel agents a 3% commission. His monthly salary, which is based on commissions, has dropped from about $7,000 to $1,000.be on commission People often work harder when they're on commission. [ C ]   GOVERNMENT   (also Commission) a group of people who have been officially chosen to examine a problem and advise on the best action to take: appoint/create/establish/set up a commission Congress appointed a commission to investigate the causes of the financial crisis. [ C ]   GOVERNMENT   (also Commission) an official organization whose job is to manage a particular activity, suggest laws relating to the activity, and make certain that laws are obeyed: communications/energy/planning, etc. commission The Energy Commission announced rules that bar municipal utilities from signing new contracts with coal-fired power plants. COMMERCE a request to do a particular piece of work for someone: accept/get/receive a commission When he was 19, he got a commission to write an orchestra piece. commissionverb [ T ] uk /kəˈmɪʃən/ us to ask someone do a particular piece of work for you: The newspaper commissioned a series of articles on the fashion industry.  out of commission broken or not available to be used: put sth/take sth out of commission In Port Arthur, three major refineries were taken out of commission by power failures. See also decommission Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the Federal Communications Commission the Federal Trade Commission overriding commission the Securities and Exchange Commission (Definition of commission from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of commission

commission A particularly sensitive issue concerns the registration of voters and the respective roles of the electoral commission and the interior ministry. From the Cambridge English Corpus For achieving this purpose, the commission stresses the importance of having reliable and comparable information on health interventions. From the Cambridge English Corpus Yet despite the initial optimism surrounding it, the commission almost immediately suffered setbacks. From the Cambridge English Corpus When a draft law arrives, it is considered by the appropriate technical commissions. From the Cambridge English Corpus The local commissions of each sector agreed to license foster parents trained for the project. From the Cambridge English Corpus The commissioning group facilitated bids from the voluntary sector, linking them to academic units. From the Cambridge English Corpus The commission's own comparison of redemption values and current land prices revealed a large discrepancy. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the end, there were really two distinct commissions rather than just one. From the Cambridge English Corpus In recent years, economic studies have been commissioned to evaluate "costly diseases" to make decisions regarding re-insurance. From the Cambridge English Corpus Testimony before the royal commission echoed this worry about the double threat to hierarchies of age and class. From the Cambridge English Corpus In such an ambitious and wide-ranging enterprise, sins of omission and commission are inevitable. From the Cambridge English Corpus In short, the commission had to decide about the future function of electricity within the increasingly complex framework of public utilities. From the Cambridge English Corpus The point from which the commission proceeded was that it is. From the Cambridge English Corpus All articles, including commissioned ones, will be refereed. From the Cambridge English Corpus He also participated in various commissions related to the cultural-heritage preservation of archaeological sites, as well as the preservation of industrial historical monuments. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of commission These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations with commission

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advisory commissionThat is a strange advisory commission. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0   commission of crimeDesistance is defined here as an individual's stopping the commission of crime. From the Cambridge English Corpus   commission of inquiryEuthanasia and other medical decisions concerning the end of life: an investigation performed upon request of the commission of inquiry into the medical practice concerning euthanasia. From the Cambridge English Corpus   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with commission What is the pronunciation of commission?

Translations of commission

in Chinese (Traditional) 工作, （正式地）安排…做，委託…做, 軍事的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 工作, （正式地）安排…做，委托…做, 军事的… See more in Spanish encargar, comisión, encargo… See more in Portuguese encarregar, encomendar, comissão… See more in Turkish in French in Japanese in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian kurul, heyet, komite… See more commission [feminine], commande [feminine], passer (une) commande à… See more 委員会（いいんかい）, 手数料（てすうりょう）, 依頼制作（いらい せいさく）… See more commissie, opdracht, aanstelling (tot officier)… See more provize, pověření, jmenovací dekret… See more provision, kommission, bestilling… See more komisi, pesanan barang seni, surat tugas… See more ค่านายหน้า, การสั่งงานศิลปะ, สัญญาบัตร… See more tiền hoa hồng, nhiệm vụ, bằng phong cấp sỹ quan… See more komisja, zlecenie, prowizja… See more provision, uppdrag, beställning… See more komisen, tempahan, tauliah… See more die Vergütung, der Auftrag, das Offizierspatent… See more kommisjon [masculine], provisjon [masculine], bestilling [masculine]… See more комісія, замовлення, офіцерський чин… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of commission

• on commission
• commission agent
• High Commission
• royal commission
• sales commission
• commission broker
• Competition Commission

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• in commission idiom
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• English   
  • Verb 
    • commission (REQUEST WORK)
    • commission (MAKE OFFICER)
  • Noun 
    • commission (GROUP)
    • commission (PAYMENT)
    • commission (WORK)
    • commission (CRIME)
    • commission (MILITARY)
• American   
  • Noun 
    • commission (GROUP)
    • commission (WORK REQUEST)
    • commission (MILITARY)
    • commission (CRIME)
    • commission (PAYMENT)
  • Verb 
    • commission (WORK REQUEST)
• Business   Noun
  • Verb 
    • commission
    • out of commission
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