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commission

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French commission, from Latin commissi? (sending together; commission), from prefix com- (with), + noun of action missi? (sending), from perfect passive participle missus (sent), from the verb mitt? (to send), + noun of action suffix -i?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??m???n/
  • Rhymes: -???n

Noun

commission (countable and uncountable, plural commissions)

  1. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
  2. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
  3. The thing to be done as agent for another.
  4. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
    • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
      A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.
    Synonyms: committee, government body
  5. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
    Hyponyms: (to a broker) brokerage, (to a shroff) shroffage
  6. The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
    • Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.
    Antonym: omission

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

commission (third-person singular simple present commissions, present participle commissioning, simple past and past participle commissioned)

  1. (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
    • 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
      Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
  2. (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art)
  3. (transitive) To put into active service

Translations


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commissio, commissionem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?.mi.sj??/

Noun

commission f (plural commissions)

  1. commission (fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction)

Derived terms

  • Commission européenne

Descendants

  • ? Persian: ???????? (komisiyon)
  • ? Turkish: komisyon

Further reading

  • “commission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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errand

English

Alternative forms

  • arrand

Etymology

From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ?rende, from Proto-West Germanic *?rund? (message, errand).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ?r'-?nd, IPA(key): /????nd/
  • Rhymes: -???nd

Noun

errand (plural errands)

  1. A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
    1. (literary or archaic) A mission or quest.
      • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
        What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
      • 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
        Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent.
        In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed all alone.
    2. A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
  2. The purpose of such a journey.
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
  3. An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
    • 1633, John Donne, Elegy VII
      I had not taught thee then the alphabet
      Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set
      And bound up, might with speechless secrecy
      Deliver errands mutely and mutually.

Derived terms

  • fool's errand
  • lost errand

Translations

Verb

errand (third-person singular simple present errands, present participle erranding, simple past and past participle erranded)

  1. (transitive) To send someone on an errand.
    All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
  2. (intransitive) To go on an errand.
    She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.

Anagrams

  • Ardern, Darren, Renard, darner

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