commission
noun
- hiring and payment for the creation of a piece of art
- document which appoints a person to a military force as an officer or a named person to high office
- group of appointed persons given a mandate to perform some duty
- renumeration
- period of a ship's service life spent in commission with a particular operator
verb
- establish a group with a certain responsibility
- pay for an artistic service (painting, composition, etc.)
- to grant a commission, authorize, hiring by commission
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪʃən/
noun
Etymology: Compare Italian camicia and Romanian cămeșă.
- A shirt or chemise.
“As from our beds, we doe oft cast our eyes, / Cleane linnen yeelds a shirt before we rise, / Which is a garment shifting in condition; / And in the canting tongue is a commission.”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”