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Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.

Mission :: Mission (n.) That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.

Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.

Commission :: Commission (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another..

Corporal :: Corporal (n.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels..

Ablegate :: Ablegate (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office..

Destructiveness :: Destructiveness (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.

Assignee :: Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors..

Commission :: Commission (v. t.) To send out with a charge or commission.

Brokerage :: Brokerage (n.) The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker..

Purser :: Purser (n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster..

Order :: Order (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large..

Collector :: Collector (n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll..

Errand :: Errand (n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere..

Penalty :: Penalty (n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass..

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..

Vacate :: Vacate (v. t.) To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause..

Subaltern :: Subaltern (n.) A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain..

Sin :: Sin (n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission..

Poundage :: Poundage (n.) A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission..

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