Crossword clues for commission
commission
- A special group delegated to consider some matter
- The state of being in good working order and ready for operation
- An official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- Body dealing with 52 Across
- Military bestowal
- Payment to a salesperson
- Out of __ (kaput)
- Military authority
- Some people work on it
- A group of representatives or delegates
- The act of committing a crime
- A task that has been assigned to a person or group
- A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- The act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
- 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)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Factorage \Fac"tor*age\, n. [Cf. F. factorage.] The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "authority entrusted to someone," from Latin commissionem (nominative commissio) "delegation of business," noun of action from past participle stem of committere (see commit). Meaning "body of persons charged with authority" is from late 15c.
1660s, from commission (n.). Related: Commissioned; commissioning.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something). 2 An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers. 3 The thing to be done as agent for another. 4 A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function. 5 A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction. 6 The act of committing (e.g. a crime). vb. 1 (context transitive English) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something. 2 (context transitive English) To place an order for (often piece of art); as, commission a portrait. 3 (context transitive English) To put into active service; as, commission a ship.
WordNet
n. a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle [syn: committee]
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 [syn: commissioning]
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 [syn: deputation, delegation, delegacy, mission]
a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: charge, direction]
an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces [syn: military commission]
the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, committal]
a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge]
v. put into commission; equip for service; of ships
place an order for
charge with a task
Wikipedia
Commission may refer to:
- Commission (remuneration), a form of payment to an agent for services rendered
- Commission (art), the purchase or the creation of a piece of art most often on behalf of another
- Commission (document), a document given to commissioned officers.
- Commissioning, a process or service provided to validate the completeness and accuracy of a project or venture
- Project commissioning, the process of assuring that all systems and components of a building or industrial plant are designed, installed, tested, operated, and maintained according to the operational requirements of the owner or final client
- Building commissioning, a quality assurance process during and following building construction
- Ship commissioning, placing a warship in active military duty
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Commissioned officer, who derives authority directly from a sovereign power
- Contrast with Non-commissioned officers
- Purchase of commissions in the British army
- Statutory commission, a government authority created by statutes of the legislature such as:
- Statutory authority
- Independent agencies of the United States government
- Regulatory agency
- Public benefit corporation
- Constitutional Commission, a body reviewing or writing a constitution
- European Commission, the executive body of the European Union
- Presidential Commission (United States), a high level research group
- Royal Commission, a public inquiry
- Irish Land Commission, a body designed to fix rents in Ireland
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a US body enforcing and regulating the securities industry
- Great Commission, a tenet of Christian theology given by Jesus to spread his teachings
- The Commission (mafia), the governing body of the mafia in the United States
- Commissioned (gospel group)
- Perpetration in law
Commission may also be used for:
- Letters patent, an open letter issued by a government granting an office or other status to someone or some entity
- A type of government agency that operates under the authority of a board of commissioners, though the term may also be applied to non-governmental groups such as the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
- A type of contract for performance or creation of a specific work
A commission is a formal document issued to appoint a named person to high office or as a commissioned officer in a territory's armed forces.
Commissions are typically issued in the name of or signed by the Head of State. In Commonwealth realms other than the United Kingdom, they may be signed by the Governor-General, the representative of the Monarch of the United Kingdom, who is also Commander-in-Chief in and over that realm.
In art, a commission is the hiring and payment for the creation of a piece, often on behalf of another. Artwork may be commissioned by private individuals, by the government, or businesses. Commissions often resemble endorsement or sponsorship.
In classical music, ensembles often commission pieces from composers, where the ensemble secures the composer's payment from private or public organizations or donors.
The payment of commission as remuneration for services rendered or products sold is a common way to reward sales people. Payments often are calculated on the basis of a percentage of the goods sold, a way for firms to solve the principal–agent problem by attempting to realign employees' interests with those of the firm.
One of the most common means of attempting to align principal and agent interests is to design a contract with incentives that track agent performance. The principal–agent theory provides an explanation for the dissimilarities across the marketing firms in the types of compensation plans used by them, such as fixed salary, straight commission or a combination of both fixed salary and straight commissions.
Although many types of commission systems exist, a common form is known as on-target earnings in which commission rates are based on the achievement of specific targets that have been agreed upon between management and the salesperson. Commissions are intended to create a strong incentive for employees to invest maximum effort into their work.
Often, a firm embracing a commission structure may not involve employees, but may solely establish themselves using independent contractors. An example in the US could be a real estate agent.
Commission is not offered at most entities that receive donations or gifts. This is both laughable and likely against the will of most donors. However, it is commonly argued that this would increase motivation and efficiency of those requesting donations.
Reward in the form of commission alone with no pay or salary is in the US known as straight commission. Reward may also take the form of commission plus a fixed salary. Industries where commission is commonly paid include car sales, property sales, insurance broking, and many other sales jobs.
In 2011, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 1396 amending the California Labor Code requiring all employers who pay commissions to enter into written contracts with their employees regarding how commissions will be earned, computed and paid. The new law, effective on 1 January 2013, further states that commission excludes "short-term productivity bonuses such as those paid to retail clerks" and "bonus and profit-sharing plans, unless there has been an offer by the employer to pay a fixed percentage of sales or profits as compensation for work to be performed."
Usage examples of "commission".
Manfred had spent a great deal of time there, I knew, taking commissions for guns, delivering the finished products, and doing small jobs of repair.
On August 24, with the arrival of a packet of letters from Congress sent on by Franklin from Paris, Adams learned that his commission as peacemaker had been revoked and a new commission established.
IN LATE SEPTEMBER, John Jay dispatched an urgent note to John Adams from Paris to report that the British emissary Richard Oswald had received a formal commission to treat with the United States on the matter of peace.
Within days Adams appointed two special envoys who, with General Pinckney, would comprise a new commission to proceed to Paris.
Later, when Marshall arrived in Philadelphia, Adams felt still better about the makeup of the commission.
Washington had accepted his commission in an entirely cordial letter to Adams, but with the understanding that as head of the new army he could choose his own principal officers.
Instead of Murray alone serving as minister plenipotentiary, Adams nominated Patrick Henry and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth to join Murray as envoys to France, making a commission of three.
A few years earlier, hearing that Trumbull was to undertake such a commission, Adams had lectured him on the importance of accuracy.
The right-hand one, commissioned by my Grandmother Adelia, is of Colonel Parkman, a veteran of the last decisive battle fought in the American Revolution, that of Fort Ticonderoga, now in New York State.
Upon that Commission the interested nations, that is to say--putting them in alphabetical order--the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese--might all be represented in proportion to their interest.
Klein, a physiologist, before the Royal Commission, testified that he had no regard at all for the sufferings of the animals he used, and never used anaesthetics, except for didactic purposes, unless necessary for his own convenience, and that he had no time for thinking what the animal would feel or suffer.
Hence an act granting a right of appeal from the Commission to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is not unconstitutional as conferring executive power upon a judicial body.
At least some of these changes involved Donatello, who was commissioned to decorate the sacristy with a complex program that included painted stucco reliefs in the eight circular roundels and a set of bronze doors with two large archlike reliefs above them.
Their collaborators and sharp competitors in the great and noble work of planting the gospel and the church in old and neglected fields at the South, and carrying them westward to the continually advancing frontier of population, were to be found in the multiplying army of the Methodist itinerants and local exhorters, whose theology, enjoined upon them by their commission, was the Arminianism of John Wesley.
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