high commission

1. 1.

   an embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another

   Broaderembassy

   United Kingdom

Questions about high commission

What does high commission mean?

high commission means "an embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another".

Is high commission a common word?

high commission is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.