Definition of Commission

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Commission

The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.

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.

A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.

A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.

A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.

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.

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.

To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.

To send out with a charge or commission.

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Commission Quotations

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Plutarch

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.
Hillary Clinton

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.
Hermann Goering

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
William Tecumseh Sherman

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison

She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'
Amy Tan

Commission Translations

commission in Afrikaans is opdrag, kommissie
commission in Dutch is commissie, opdracht, boodschap
commission in French is commissionnons, commissionnent, commissionnez
commission in German is Kommission {f}, Anzahlung {f}, Auftrag {m}
commission in Italian is commissione
commission in Latin is mandatum
commission in Norwegian is oppdrag
commission in Swedish is kommission, provision, fullmakt, uppdrag

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