Dictionary Entry
commission
commission is a 10-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
- 2noun
The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
- 3noun
The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
- 4noun
A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
- 5noun
A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
- 6noun
A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
- 7noun
The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
- 8noun
The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.
- 9noun
The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
- 10transitive verb
To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
- 11transitive verb
To send out with a charge or commission.
- 12noun
a special assignment that is given to a person or group
"a confidential mission to London"
"his charge was deliver a message"
- 13noun
the act of committing a crime
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- 14noun
the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
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- 15noun
an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- 16noun
a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
"the judge's charge to the jury"
- 17noun
a special group delegated to consider some matter - Milton Berle
"a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours"
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- 18noun
a group of representatives or delegates
- 19noun
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"
- 20noun
the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
"put the ships into commission"
"the motor was out of commission"
- 21verb
charge with a task
- 22verb
put into commission; equip for service; of ships
- 23verb
place an order for
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