Commissions Synonyms and Antonyms

A group of representatives or delegates
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. committees
  2. missions
  3. boards
  4. delegacies
  5. delegations
  6. deputations
A special assignment that is given to a person or group
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. charges
  2. missions
  3. directions
  4. commands
  5. licenses
  6. orders
A duty
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. functions
  2. works
  3. assignments
  4. obligations
Authorize or delegate task
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. licenses
  2. commands
  3. hires
  4. consigns
  5. enables
  6. authorizes
  7. ordains
  8. constitutes
  9. empowers
  10. works
  11. selects
  12. qualifies
  13. elects
  14. warrants
  15. trusts
  16. bespeaks
  17. orders
  18. tasks
  19. nominates
  20. permits
  21. names
  22. invests
  23. employs
  24. entitles
  25. engages
  26. assigns
  27. charges
  28. dispatches
  29. establishes
  30. entrusts
  31. appoints
  32. demands
  33. commits
  34. accredits
  35. sends
  36. requests
  37. requisitions
  38. charters
  39. boards
Antonyms:
  1. retracts

Words Related to Commissions

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Commissions Sentence Examples

  • The governing synod now sits at St Petersburg, but appoints delegated commissions, with a portion of its jurisdiction, in Moscow and Georgia.

  • The reply to this threat was the immediate resignation of their commissions by all the officers connected with the Tiro Nacional.

  • He served on various royal commissions, and from 1877 was the chairman of the managing body of the meteorological office.

  • The administrative officers of the state are a governor, a lieutenantgovernor, a secretary of state, a state treasurer, and an auditor of accounts, elected by popular vote, and an inspector of finance, a commissioner of taxes, a superintendent of education, a fish and game commissioner, three railroad commissioners, and various boards and commissions, of whom some are elected by the General Assembly and some are appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate.

  • The lords and the Scots vehemently took Manchester's part; but the Commons eventually sided with Cromwell, appointed Sir Thomas Fairfax general of the New Model Army, and passed two self-denying ordinances, the second of which, ordering all members of both houses to lay down their commissions within forty days, was accepted by the lords on the 3rd of April 1645.

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