commission

English Online Dictionary. What means commission‎? What does commission mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

commission (countable and uncountable, plural commissions)

1. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
2. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
3. The thing to be done as agent for another.

4. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.

   Synonym: committee
5. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.

   Hyponyms: (to a broker) brokerage, (to a shroff) shroffage
6. The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error).

   Antonym: omission

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Verb

commission (third-person singular simple present commissions, present participle commissioning, simple past and past participle commissioned)

1. (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
2. (transitive) To place an order for (often a piece of art).

3. (transitive) To put (a ship or boat, etc.) into active service.

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Etymology 2

Compare Italian camicia and Romanian cămeșă.

Noun

commission (plural commissions)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A shirt or chemise.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Taylor's Works, 1630 to this entry?)

   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.

Derived terms

• smish

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

Chinese

Etymology

From English commission. Compare Wu 康密興 / 康密兴 (¹khaon-miq-shin).

Pronunciation

Noun

commission

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) commission (fee)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commissiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/

Noun

commission f (plural commissions)

1. commission (fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction)
2. message

   faire une commission à quelqu'un ― to give a message to somebody

Derived terms

• Commission européenne
• grosse commission

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: قومیسیون (komisyon)
  • Turkish: komisyon
• → Persian: کمیسیون (komisiyon)

Further reading

• “commission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.