commission
/kəˈmɪʃən/ verb C1- To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something. · James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents.
- To place an order for (often a piece of art). · He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months.
- To put (a ship or boat, etc.) into active service. · The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII.
He/she/it commissions · Past commissioned · Past participle commissioned · -ing form commissioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- commission
- He/she/it
- commissions
- Past
- commissioned
- Past participle
- commissioned
- -ing form
- commissioning
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Tomorrow morning I start for Paris; four days to go, and the same to return, with one day to discharge the commission entrusted to me, is all the time I shall be absent.
commission.
“‘Well, as after my death the command devolves on you as mate, assume the command, and bear up for the Island of Elba, disembark at Porto-Ferrajo, ask for the grand-marshal, give him this letter—perhaps they will give you another letter, and charge you with a commission.
When I asked him if he had bought it, he answered that it was a present from a certain gracious lady in whose interests he had once been fortunate enough to carry out a small commission.
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