Definition of commission

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Commission (n.) The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.

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Commission :: Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission..
Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander..
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another..
Hoppo :: Hoppo (n.) A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.
Warrantable :: Warrantable (a.) Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating..
Commitment :: Commitment (n.) A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission..
Empower :: Empower (v. t.) To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor..
Jurisdiction :: "Jurisdiction (a.) The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission..
Cadet :: Cadet (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission..
Commission :: Commission (v. t.) To send out with a charge or commission.
Private :: Private (n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain..
Caption :: Caption (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed..
Rapeful :: Rapeful (a.) Given to the commission of rape.
Percentage :: Percentage (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred..
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics..
Brokerage :: Brokerage (n.) The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker..
Procedendo :: Procedendo (n.) A writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended..
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