The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commission \Com*mis"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. commissio. See Commit.]
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The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.
--South. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
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A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
Let him see our commission.
--Shak. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
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A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.
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The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.
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The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array.
Commission of bankruptcy, a commission appointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors.
Commission of lunacy, a commission authorizing an inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not.
Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his compensation.
Commission officer or Commissioned officer, (Mil.), one who has a commission, in distinction from a noncommissioned or warrant officer.
Commission of the peace, a commission under the great seal, constituting one or more persons justices of the peace.
on commission, paid partly or completely by collecting as a commision a portion of the sales that one makes.
out of commission, not operating properly; out of order.
To put a vessel into commission (Naut.), to equip and man a government vessel, and send it out on service after it has been laid up; esp., the formal act of taking command of a vessel for service, hoisting the flag, reading the orders, etc.
To put a vessel out of commission (Naut.), to detach the officers and crew and retire it from active service, temporarily or permanently.
To put the great seal into commission or To put the Treasury into commission, to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and the accession of another. [Eng.]
The United States Christian Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals.
The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to co["o]perate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War.
Syn: Charge; warrant; authority; mandate; office; trust; employment.
Wiktionary
n. (context military English) An officer who derives authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, hold a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position.
WordNet
n. a military officer holding a commission
Usage examples of "commissioned officer".
McCoy, USMC, 1st Defense Battalion, Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to try him on charges that on the twenty-fourth day of December 1941, he had committed the offense of assault upon the person of a commissioned officer of the U.
But it had been a pleasant experience for the both of them to recall their common experience, and to find somebody else from the old neighborhood who was a fellow commissioned officer and gentleman.
Whatever your Legion rank on discharge, you will have been a commissioned officer in the Royal Army.
The miserable little sonofabitch should never have been a commissioned officer in the first place.
They don't say the Captaincy shall devolve on the next commissioned officer.
Given the basis on which they were offered their warrants in the first place, a WO was usually somewhat older than the average commissioned officer of his equivalent rank.
There was a nice little restaurant in Chen-chiang on the far shore, and McCoy could see no reason to remain on the near shore hungry, while there was a commissioned officer and gentleman (two, if you counted Sessions) available to supervise the loading of the rear echelon.
McCoy had sometimes imagined that there would probably be a chance somewhere down the road after he had more time in, for him to get to be a warrant officer, and maybe even a commissioned officer.
Captain Deladrier in the absence of a commissioned officer of our own.
In the meantime I got my corporal's stripes, nominated by Jelly and confirmed by Captain Deladrier in the absence of a commissioned officer of our own.
And then he admitted, And I could not instantly or easily accept seeing him as a commissioned officer whose rank equals my own.
Since they had already been stolen, I decided the higher morality was to make sure they were put to use by a bona fide commissioned officer of the Naval Service, such as myself, rather than, for example, by some tout watching the ponies run at the racetrack.
The 'non-[[commissioned' officer]] exercises equally valid and at times absolute authority, but he holds it from the commissioned officer who appointed him and who can at his discretion remove the office.