Definition of commission

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Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission..

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Orderly :: Orderly (n.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service..
Noncommissioned :: Noncommissioned (a.) Not having a commission.
Commissioner :: Commissioner (n.) A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims..
Subligation :: Sublieutenant (n.) An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank..
Commission :: Commission (v. t.) To send out with a charge or commission.
Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.
Commission :: Commission (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere..
Into :: Into (prep.) Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits
Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating..
Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander..
Commissionate :: Commissionate (v. t.) To commissio.
Mandate :: Mandate (n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
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..
Ensign :: Ensign (n.) Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment..
Striped :: Stripe (n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.
Bombardier :: Bombardier (n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..
Discommission :: Discommission (v. t.) To deprive of a commission or trust.
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