different between occupation vs commission
occupation
English
Etymology
From Middle English occupacioun, borrowed from Middle French occupation, from Latin occup?tio.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kj??pe???n/, /?kj??pe???n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kj??pe???n/, /?kj??pe???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
occupation (countable and uncountable, plural occupations)
- An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
- The act, process or state of possessing a place.
- The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
Synonyms
- (activity with which one occupies oneself) employment, interest, line of work, profession, vocation
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin occup?tio, occup?ti?nem. Synchronically analysable as occuper +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.ky.pa.sj??/
Noun
occupation f (plural occupations)
- occupation (the occupying of a territory; something that one spends one's time on, such as a job or a hobby; act of occupying, of being an occupant)
Related terms
- occuper
Further reading
- “occupation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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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