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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commissioner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
commissioner for oaths
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
▪ The assistant commissioner reported troubles with the farmers, but much more with the labourers.
▪ As assistant commissioner, Smith oversees marketing programs involving livestock, horticulture, fiber and international marketing.
▪ Ultimately, I made him an assistant commissioner.
high
▪ She says her dismissal followed the arrival of Peter Hughes, who became high commissioner in January 1998.
parliamentary
▪ One of the parliamentary commissioners who escorted the king to Holdenby, he was regarded as an enemy by the army council.
▪ Thereafter he continued to be an influential committee-man until he returned to Ireland as a parliamentary commissioner in June 1649.
▪ In 1967, a parliamentary commissioner was established to investigate complaints passed on by Members of Parliament about maladministration in government departments.
regional
▪ The eight regional commissioners will be paid £21,511 for a three-day week.
■ NOUN
county
▪ One pilot flew Dade County commissioners over the crash site, another pilot said.
▪ The county commissioners supply his budget, but can not fire him.
▪ Grand Forks County commissioners call a meeting and declare the county an emergency area, a first step in gaining disaster aid.
▪ Do you realize I could be making $ 524 an hour if I were a county commissioner?
▪ He was the only Republican ever elected county commissioner of Chicago.
▪ Arthur Elrod, ward boss and county commissioner, begat Richard Elrod, sheriff.
environment
▪ Then, suddenly, the environment commissioner announces more consultation is needed and it s on hold until the autumn.
insurance
▪ But State insurance commissioner Roxani Gillespie imposed a six-month freeze on all car insurance rates on October 2.
▪ On Friday, the insurance commissioner also approved the deal, but only if Harvard met eight additional conditions.
▪ The insurance industry has all the power, not to mention our friend Chuck Quackenbush as state insurance commissioner.
police
▪ He questioned whether the courts could give orders to Mr Mugabe and the police commissioner, Augustine Chihuri.
▪ Hauser is also the grandson of former police commissioner Stanley Sheinbaum.
▪ The national police commissioner, George Fivaz, this week said that undercover agents would be sent in.
▪ He lunched with the police commissioner at a fish restaurant in Torch Bay.
▪ On Oct. 19 a police commissioner and his wife and son were shot dead.
▪ The Katsina police commissioner was later quoted as saying that there had been no deaths, contrary to media reports.
▪ Or that they are to be judges, or police commissioners, or toilet attendants.
trade
▪ Future trade agreements will be negotiated not by the member states, but principally by the trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy.
■ VERB
appoint
▪ In 1653 he was appointed one of the commissioners for propagating the gospel in northern counties.
▪ Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.
▪ Rather than intervening directly, the Home Office appointed an independent commissioner, whose report vindicated Dyer's accusations.
▪ Mr Prager has been appointed one of the commissioners to the Paris Exposition.
▪ In 1694 he was appointed a customs commissioner, a post he held until 1701 and again from 1714 onward.
become
▪ She says her dismissal followed the arrival of Peter Hughes, who became high commissioner in January 1998.
▪ He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner.
elect
▪ An elected health commissioner would run the system with an appointed medical advisory board and regional directors.
▪ He was the only Republican ever elected county commissioner of Chicago.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ County commissioners face urgent issues that are more deserving of government time and money.
▪ During the spring of 843, the commissioners did their job of surveying the royal resources in Francia.
▪ In Mike Straus, he had a commissioner who would stoke the engine until the rivets began to pop.
▪ Its five commissioners are now down to three.
▪ Rick Perry, the Texas commissioner of agriculture, is a rancher with an aversion to hyperbole.
▪ Tensions flared in the long-running Senate Whitewater hearings Thursday as a former Arkansas securities commissioner testified that she warned then-Gov.
▪ The tax commissioners rejected such claim: the revenue did not appeal.
▪ We have a Negro vehicle commissioner.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commissioner

Commissioner \Com*mis"sion*er\, n.

  1. A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.

    To another address which requested that a commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the commissioners.
    --Macaulay.

  2. An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.

    Herbert was first commissioner of the Admiralty.
    --Macaulay.

    The commissioner of patents, the commissioner of the land office, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subordinates of the secretary of the interior.
    --Bartlett.

    Commissioner of deeds, an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed. [U. S.]

    County commissioners, certain administrative officers in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commissioner

early 15c., "one appointed by a commission," from Anglo-French commissionaire, from Medieval Latin commissionarius, from commissionem (see commission (n.)). Meaning "member of a commission" is from 1530s.

Wiktionary
commissioner

n. 1 A member of a commission. 2 Someone commissioned to perform certain duties. 3 An official in charge of a government department, especially a police force. 4 Someone who commissions something

WordNet
commissioner
  1. n. a government administrator

  2. a member of a commission

Wikipedia
Commissioner

A commissioner is, in principle, the title given to a member of a commission or to an individual who has been given a commission (official charge or authority to do something, the noun's second meaning).

In practice, the title of commissioner has evolved to include a variety of senior officials, often sitting on a specific commission. In particular, commissioner frequently refers to senior police or government officials. A High Commissioner is equivalent to an ambassador, originally between the United Kingdom and the Dominions and now between all Commonwealth states, whether Commonwealth realms, republics, or countries having a monarch other than that of the realms. The title is sometimes given to senior officials in the private sector; for instance, many North American sports leagues.

There is some confusion between commissioners and commissaries, because other European languages use the same word for both. Therefore titles such as commissaire in French, Kommissar in German and comisario in Spanish can mean either commissioner or commissary in English, depending on the context.

Commissioner (film)

Commissioner is a 1994 Indian Malayalam action – thriller film produced by M. Mani, written by Ranji Panicker, directed by Shaji Kailas, and starring Suresh Gopi as Police Commissioner Bharath Chandran. The film also stars Ratheesh, Vijayaraghavan, Shobana, M. G. Soman, Rajan P. Dev, Ganesh Kumar, and Bheeman Raghu. The background score was composed by Rajamani and the cinematography was by Dinesh Baboo.

It is treated as a cult classic film among Keralite audiences.. The Telugu dubbed version Police Commissioner broke several collection records.

In 2005, eleven years after the release of the film, it had a sequel named Bharath Chandran I.P.S., directed by Ranji Panicker himself, making his directorial debut. It also was a blockbuster and ran for 100 days like its prequel. in 2012 a crossover film The King & the Commissioner, starring Mammootty and Suresh Gopi, with the characters from The King (1995), Commissioner (1994) and Bharath Chandran I.P.S. (2005) respectively, was released.

Commissioner (The Salvation Army)

The rank of Commissioner in The Salvation Army is the second highest rank attainable by Officers in the organisation, and many of the Army's Territorial Commanders and even the Chief of the Staff hold this rank (the highest rank in The Salvation Army, the rank of General, is by election). The rank of Commissioner has been an active rank since 1880, and is one of the original ranks created by General William Booth, the first appointed Commissioner being George Scott Railton.

Commissioner (Scottish Parliament)

A Commissioner was a legislator appointed or elected to represent a royal burgh or shire in the pre-Union Scottish Parliament and the associated Convention of the Estates. Member of Parliament (MP) and Deputy are equivalent terms in other countries.

The Scottish Parliament (also known as the Three Estates) and the Convention of the Estates were unicameral legislatures, so Commissioners sat alongside prelates (the first estate) and members of the nobility (the second estate).

Commissioner (musical group)

Commissioner was an American side project of Suicide Silence's Mitch Lucker and Disfiguring The Goddess's Cameron " Big Chocolate" Argon.

Usage examples of "commissioner".

But before leaving York, Adams had been told by Elbridge Gerry that he was to be appointed a commissioner to France, in place of Silas Deane, who was being recalled to answer charges of questionable conduct.

On November 27, Congress named Adams a commissioner to work with Franklin and Arthur Lee in negotiating a French alliance.

However, the new resident commissioner at Passy, John Adams, required closer study, and in an effort to inform London, Alexander provided an especially perceptive appraisal: John Adams is a man of the shortest of what is called middle size in England, strong and tight-made, rather inclining to fat, of a complexion that bespeaks a warmer climate than Massachusetts is supposed, a countenance which bespeaks rather reflection than imagination.

He saw the futility and unnecessary expense of having three commissioners, and after six weeks in Paris, as early as May 21, he was writing to Samuel Adams to say that one commissioner, Franklin, would be quite enough.

They had met earlier at Passy, corresponded over naval matters, and Jones, quite unjustly, had decided that Adams, in his role as commissioner, was conspiring against him.

As secretary for the American commissioners, Franklin had selected his grandson, William Temple Franklin, a decision that did not please Adams, who thought John Thaxter better qualified.

He had been appointed by Congress to join the commissioners, Franklin and Adams, in Paris.

The two commissioners and a few workers at hand comprised the welcoming committee for the arrival of John Adams, the first President to occupy what only much later would become known as the White House.

At Ghent the same month, the American commissioners led by John Quincy Adams signed a peace treaty with Britain, news that would not reach the United States until February, by which time Americans under General Andrew Jackson had won a decisive victory, on January 15, at the battle of New Orleans.

Commissioner of Grants for the WSF, who was influential in getting the Archaeopteryx funded.

When Weston handed Kelford the list and explained that it contained names of persons taken in a raid at the Century Casino, Kelford gave the commissioner a contemptuous stare and turned back toward the billiard room.

Every time Cardona showed up with a new report, the commissioner shouted for Kelford, and thereby gained a respite from the clicking of the billiard balls.

The commissioner had been mentally beefing over that point, until he suddenly remembered that the Cobalt Club was no longer a haven of restfulness since Marvin Kelford had taken permanent possession of the billiard room.

In May, 1537, the royal commissioners once more attended at the Charterhouse, when they found the majority of its inmates prepared to take the oath prescribed.

The Chicagoan, June 8 Front Page by Ralph Buncomb, staff writer CHICAGO--Repercussions from the Westside Development scandal reached city hall yesterday, as Planning Commissioner J.