commission
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪʃən/
The English word “commission” has 12 meanings listed here.
noun
- A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
- An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
- The thing to be done as agent for another.
- A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
- A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
- A bonus in pay awarded to a salesperson for selling a particular, secretly sponsored product, for which the sponsor will reimburse the employer.
- A payment by a fan to an artist, after which the artist will produce a work of art requested by the fan.
- The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error).
- A shirt or chemise.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English commissioun, from Old French commission, from Latin commissiō (“sending together; commission”), from committō + -tiō (suffix forming nouns of action), from com- (“with”) + mittō (“to send”).
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