commission
verb/kəˈmɪʃn/
/kəˈmɪʃn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they commission | /kəˈmɪʃn/ /kəˈmɪʃn/ |
| he / she / it commissions | /kəˈmɪʃnz/ /kəˈmɪʃnz/ |
| past simple commissioned | /kəˈmɪʃnd/ /kəˈmɪʃnd/ |
| past participle commissioned | /kəˈmɪʃnd/ /kəˈmɪʃnd/ |
| -ing form commissioning | /kəˈmɪʃənɪŋ/ /kəˈmɪʃənɪŋ/ |
- to officially ask somebody to write, make or create something or to do a task for you
- commission somebody to do something She has been commissioned to write a new national anthem.
- commission something to commission a study/report
- a specially commissioned piece of music
- Publishers have commissioned a French translation of the book.
- The survey on consumer taste was commissioned by local stores.
- commission something from somebody The king commissioned portraits from foreign artists.
- commission something for something the first opera commissioned for television
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- specially
- newly
- recently
- …
- from
- [usually passive] to choose somebody as an officer in one of the armed forces
- be commissioned She was commissioned in 2014.
- be commissioned (as) something He has just been commissioned (as a) pilot officer.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- specially
- newly
- recently
- …
- from
piece of art/music, etc.
in armed forces
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from Latin commissio(n-), from committere ‘entrust’ (in medieval Latin ‘put into custody’), from com- ‘with’ + mittere ‘put or send’.
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