commission

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Body of persons with an assignment

Nouns

1. commission, delegation; consignment, assignment; deputation, legation, mission, embassy; committee (see council); agency, power of attorney; task, errand, charge, mandate; diploma; permit (see permission).

2. (act of appointing) appointment, nomination, assignment, charter; ordination, installation, induction, investiture, coronation, enthronement; engagement, hiring, appointment; recruitment, conscription, enlistment.

3. (person appointed) deputy, proxy, agent; commissionaire, errand-boy; diplomat.

4. (member of a commission) commissioner, commissar; minister, mayor, warden, councilor.

5. rental, lease, hire, charter.

Verbs — commission, delegate, depute; consign, assign; charge, entrust, commit, commend; authorize, empower, permit; put in commission, accredit; engage, hire, employ; appoint, name, nominate; ordain, install, induct, invest, crown; sign up, take on; rent, hire out; lease; demise.

Adjectives — commissioned, delegated, assigned, etc.; paid; rented, leased, chartered; sent to committee.

Adverbs — for, instead of, in place of, in lieu of, as proxy for; for hire, lease, or rent, to let.

Quotations — Every time I make an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate (Louis XIV).

Antonyms, see nullification.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [The act of committing]

Syn. delegation, empowering, charging, sending, deputizing, deputation, authorizing, assignment, entrusting, commitment, committing, perpetration, performance, handing over, making over, authorization, engagement, employment, contracting, nomination, appointment, ordaining, ordination, accrediting, investiture, constitution, inauguration, coronation.

2. [An authorization]

Syn. order, license, command, charge; see mandate , permission .

3. [A duty]

Syn. work, function, obligation, assignment; see duty 2 , job 2 .

4. [A committee]

Syn. commissioners, representatives, board, council; see committee .

5. [A payment]

Syn. fee, percentage, remuneration, royalty, salary, stipend, share, portion, cut*, rake-off*; see also pay 2 , payment 1 .

• out of commission,

Syn. damaged, not working, out of order, disabled; see broken 2 .

v.

Syn. authorize, appoint, charge, delegate, deputize, empower, accredit, license, order, contract for, requisition, request, send, depute, constitute, ordain, commit, entrust, give in charge, dispatch, consign, assign, entrust with a mission, charge with an errand, confide to, engage, employ, invest, name, nominate, hire, bespeak, enable, command, elect, select; see also approve 1 .

to commission a person is to authorize as well as instruct to perform a certain duty, as the execution of an artistic work, or to appoint to a certain rank or office; authorize implies the giving of power or the right to act, ranging in application from a specific legal power to discretionary powers in dealings of any kind; to accredit , in this comParison, implies the sending of a person, duly authorized and with the proper credentials, as an ambassador, delegate, etc.; license implies the giving of formal legal permission to do some specified thing and often emphasizes regulation [ to license hunters ]

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

1. authorization relegation, entrusting, power, authority, charge, trust, vesting.

2. board committee, delegation, council, agency.

3. compensation fee, share, cut, remuneration, royalty, payment, allowance, stipend.

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v.

appoint, assign, delegate, authorize, order, enlist, consign, charge, engage, invest, hire, contract for.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun An assignment one is sent to carry out: errand, mission. See WORK. II verb To give authority to: accredit, authorize, empower, enable, entitle, license, qualify. See ALLOW.