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say it: kuh-MISH-uhn
commission is a noun and verb meaning "a special group delegated to consider some matter". It carries 12 recorded senses.
a special group delegated to consider some matter
“a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours”
a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)
“he works on commission”
the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
“put the ships into commission”
“the motor was out of commission”
a group of representatives or delegates
a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
“the judge's charge to the jury”
an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
military
the act of committing a crime
a special assignment that is given to a person or group
“a confidential mission to London”
“his charge was deliver a message”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for commission come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.