Definition of commission

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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..

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Commissive :: Commissive (a.) Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission..
Destructiveness :: Destructiveness (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.
Brevet :: Brevet (a.) Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission..
Commission :: Commission (n.) A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties..
Commissionship :: Commissionship (n.) The office of commissioner.
Board :: Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc..
Ensign :: Ensign (n.) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army..
Noncommissioned :: Noncommissioned (a.) Not having a commission.
Mandatary :: Mandatary (n.) One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory.
Colonelcy :: Colonelcy (n.) The office, rank, or commission of a colonel..
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..
Synodal :: Synodal (n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration..
Quinquevir :: Quinquevir (n.) One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.
Commissioner :: Commissioner (n.) An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.
Privateer :: Privateer (n.) An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque..
Commission :: Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission..
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..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another..
Commissary :: Commissary (n.) One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city..
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