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- Dictionarycommission/kəˈmɪʃn/
noun
- 1. an instruction, command, or role given to a person or group: "one of his first commissions was to redesign the Great Exhibition building" Similar
- 2. a group of people entrusted by a government or other official body with authority to do something: "a commission was appointed to investigate the allegations" Similar
verb
- 1. order or authorize the production of (something): "the portrait was commissioned by his widow in 1792" Similar
- 2. bring (something newly produced) into working condition: "we had a few hiccups getting the heating equipment commissioned"
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