commission
English
/kəˈmɪʃən/
noun
Definitions
- A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
- An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
- The thing to be done as agent for another.
- A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
- A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
- The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French commission derived from Latin commissiō (sending together, commission).
Origin
Latin
commissiō
Gloss
sending together, commission
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticommission English
- commissionable English
- commissionary English
- commissionee English
- commissionless English
- commissionship English
- decommission English
- decommissioner English
- discommission English
- noncommission English
- recommission English
- subcommission English
- komissio Finnish
- commissio Latin
- commissiō Latin
- commissie Dutch, Flemish
- komisja Polish
- coimisiún Irish
- commission Old French
- कमीशन Hindi
- kamsen Indonesian
- comisiwn Welsh
- comisiynwr Welsh
- comisiynydd Welsh
- commissie Middle Dutch
- 康密興 Chinese
- কমিশন Bengali
- komisin Tok Pisin
- kommisjon Norwegian