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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)
- A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
- An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
- The thing to be done as agent for another.
- 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
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
- Hyponyms: (to a broker) brokerage, (to a shroff) shroffage
- 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)
- (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.
- 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
- (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art)
- (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)
- 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)
- A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
- (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.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
- A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
- (literary or archaic) A mission or quest.
- 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.
- 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.
- I had not taught thee then the alphabet
- 1633, John Donne, Elegy VII
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)
- (transitive) To send someone on an errand.
- All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
- (intransitive) To go on an errand.
- She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.
Anagrams
- Ardern, Darren, Renard, darner
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