Another word for commission
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Noun
An assignment one is sent to carry out
- A special assignment given to a person or group:
- A combat operation assigned to a person or military unit.
- An aerospace operation intended to carry out specific program objectives:
- A short trip taken to perform a specified task, usually for another.
- The purpose or object of such a trip:
- A mission; an embassy.
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Verb
To give authority to
- To make competent or eligible for an office, position, or task:
- To declare competent or capable, as to practice a profession; certify:
- To render deserving of a descriptor by having or enumerating certain necessary characteristics:
- Official or legal permission to engage in a regulated activity:
- A document, card, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or legal permission:
- A contract allowing someone to use a proprietary product or service:
- To give a name or title to.
- To furnish with a right or claim to something:
- To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able:
- To make feasible or possible:
- To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to:
- To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.
- To equip or supply with an ability; enable:
- To grant authority or power to.
- To give permission for (something); sanction:
- To ascribe or attribute (something) to someone:
- To give credit to:
- To certify as meeting prescribed standards or requirements, as of a profession:
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Another word for commission
Noun
The act of committing
- The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign or the sovereign's consort.
- Formal induction into office.
- A formal beginning or introduction.
- The act or process of composing, setting up, or establishing.
- The composition or structure of something; makeup.
- The physical makeup of a person:
- The act or formal ceremony of conferring the authority and symbols of a high office.
- An adornment or cover.
- Present participle of accredit.
- The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
- The ceremony of consecration to the ministry.
- An arrangement or ordering.
- Present participle of ordain.
- The act of appointing or designating someone for an office or position.
- The office or position to which one has been appointed.
- An arrangement to do something or meet someone at a particular time and place.
- The act or an instance of appointing a person to office.
- The act or an instance of submitting a name for candidacy or appointment.
- The state of being nominated.
- The act of employing.
- The state of being employed.
- The work in which one is engaged; occupation.
- The action of engaging or the state of being engaged:
- The condition of being in gear:
- A mutual promise to get married.
- The act of authorizing.
- Something that authorizes; a sanction.
- Present participle of make over.
- Present participle of hand over.
- The act of performing or the state of being performed.
- The act or style of performing a work or role before an audience.
- The way in which someone or something functions:
- The act of perpetrating
- Something (such as a crime) that is perpetrated
- Present participle of commit.
- The act of referring a legislative bill to committee.
- Official consignment, as to a prison or mental health facility.
- A court order authorizing consignment to a prison.
- Present participle of entrust.
- The act of assigning:
- Something, such as a task, that is assigned:
- A position or post of duty to which one is assigned:
- Present participle of authorize.
- A person or group appointed to represent another or others; a delegation.
- The act of deputing.
- The state of being deputed.
- Present participle of deputize.
- Present participle of send.
- The act by which somebody or something is sent.
- Present participle of charge.
- (countable) An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
- (uncountable, basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Present participle of empower.
- The act of delegating.
- The condition of being delegated.
- A person or group of persons officially elected or appointed to represent another or others.
An authorization
- To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on:
- To instruct or urge authoritatively; command:
- To instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
- To direct with authority; give orders to.
- To have control or authority over; rule:
- To have at one's disposal:
- Official or legal permission to engage in a regulated activity:
- A document, card, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or legal permission:
- A contract allowing someone to use a proprietary product or service:
- A condition of logical or comprehensible arrangement among the separate elements of a group.
- A condition of methodical or prescribed arrangement among component parts such that proper functioning or appearance is achieved:
- Condition or state in general:
A duty
- The act of assigning:
- Something, such as a task, that is assigned:
- A position or post of duty to which one is assigned:
- A social, legal, or moral requirement, such as a duty, contract, or promise, that compels one to follow or avoid a particular course of action:
- The constraining power of a promise, contract, law, or sense of duty:
- A document in which a person binds himself or herself to undertake or refrain from doing a particular act.
- A person's role or occupation:
- The physiological activity of an organ or body part:
- A procedure within an application.
- Physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something:
- Such effort or activity by which one makes a living; employment:
- A trade, profession, or other means of livelihood:
A committee
- An assembly of persons called together for consultation, deliberation, or discussion.
- A body of people elected or appointed to serve as administrators, legislators, or advisers.
- An assembly of church officials and theologians convened for regulating matters of doctrine and discipline.
- A long flat slab of sawed lumber; a plank.
- A blackboard.
- A bulletin board.
- plural form of representative
- plural form of commissioner
See also:A payment
- A percentage or share of the profits of an enterprise, especially one given or accepted as a bribe.
- To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.
- To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever:
- To sever the edges or ends of; shorten:
- A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
- A part separated from a whole.
- A helping of food.
- A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group:
- An equitable portion:
- One of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a company is divided:
- A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance.
- Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis.
- A person of royal rank or lineage.
- Monarchs and their families considered as a group.
- The lineage or rank of a monarch.
- The act of remunerating.
- Something, such as a payment, that remunerates.
- A fraction or ratio with 100 understood as the denominator; for example, 0.98 equals a percentage of 98.
- The result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent.
- A proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part:
- A fixed sum charged, as by an institution or by law, for a privilege:
- A charge for professional services:
- A tip; a gratuity.
Verb
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- To take as a choice from among several; pick out.
- To make a choice or selection.
- Singled out in preference; chosen:
- To select by vote for an office or for membership:
- To pick out; select:
- To decide, especially by preference:
- To direct with authority; give orders to.
- To have control or authority over; rule:
- To have at one's disposal:
- To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able:
- To make feasible or possible:
- To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to:
- To be or give a sign of; indicate:
- To foretell; portend:
- To engage, hire, or order in advance:
- To engage the services of (a person) for a fee; employ:
- To engage the temporary use of for a fee; rent:
- To grant the services of or the temporary use of for a fee:
- To propose as a candidate in an election or as one to be considered for an honor or prize:
- To designate or appoint to an office or responsibility:
- A word or words by which an entity is designated and distinguished from others.
- A word or group of words used to describe or evaluate, often disparagingly:
- Representation or repute, as opposed to reality:
- To commit (money or capital) in order to gain a financial return:
- To spend or devote for future advantage or benefit:
- To devote morally or psychologically, as to a purpose; commit:
- To provide work to (someone) for pay:
- To engage the attention or activity of; occupy:
- To put (something) to use or service:
- To obtain or contract for the services of; employ:
- To arrange for the use of; reserve:
- To pledge or promise, especially to marry:
- To select for a duty or office; appoint:
- To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate:
- To give out as a task; allot:
- To give over to the care or custody of another.
- To put in or assign to an unfavorable place, position, or condition:
- To set apart, as for a special use or purpose; assign:
- To relegate to a specific destination or send on specific business.
- To complete, transact, or dispose of promptly:
- To eat up (food); finish off (a dish or meal).
- To give over (something) to another for care, protection, or performance:
- To give as a trust to (someone):
- To do, perform, or perpetrate:
- To put in trust or charge; entrust:
- To consign for future use or for preservation:
- To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on:
- To authorize as a rabbi.
- To order or decree by virtue of superior authority:
- To be the elements or parts of; compose:
- To amount to; equal:
- To set up or establish according to law or provision:
- To appoint or authorize as an agent or representative.
- To assign (authority or duties) to another; delegate.
- To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination:
- To dispatch, as by a communications medium:
- To direct to go on a mission:
- To express a desire for, especially politely; ask for. Often used with an infinitive or clause:
- To ask (a person) to do something:
- An act of asking for something.
- A formal written request for something needed.
- A necessity; a requirement.
- The state or condition of being needed or put into service.
- A condition of logical or comprehensible arrangement among the separate elements of a group.
- A condition of methodical or prescribed arrangement among component parts such that proper functioning or appearance is achieved:
- Condition or state in general:
- Official or legal permission to engage in a regulated activity:
- A document, card, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or legal permission:
- A contract allowing someone to use a proprietary product or service:
- To ascribe or attribute (something) to someone:
- To give credit to:
- To certify as meeting prescribed standards or requirements, as of a profession:
- To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.
- To equip or supply with an ability; enable:
- To appoint or serve as a deputy.
- A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or agent.
- A representative to a conference or convention.
- A member of a House of Delegates, the lower house of the Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia legislature.
- To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on:
- To instruct or urge authoritatively; command:
- To instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
- To select or designate to fill an office or a position:
- To fix or set by authority or by mutual agreement:
- To furnish; equip:
- To grant authority or power to.
- To give permission for (something); sanction:
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Idioms:
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Synonym Study
- License implies the giving of formal legal permission to do some specified thing and often emphasizes regulation to license hunters
- To accredit , in this comparison, implies the sending of a person, duly authorized and with the proper credentials, as an ambassador, delegate, etc.
- Authorize implies the giving of power or the right to act, ranging in application from a specific legal power to discretionary powers in dealings of any kind
- To commission a person is to authorize as well as instruct to perform a certain duty, as the execution of an artistic work, or to appoint to a certain rank or office
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