Definition of Commissions

1. Noun. (plural of commission) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of commission) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Commissions

1. commission [v] - See also: commission

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commissions

commission plan
commissionaire
commissionaires
commissioned
commissioned military officer
commissioned naval officer
commissioned officer
commissioned officers
commissioner
commissioners
commissionership
commissionerships
commissioning
commissionnaire
commissionnaires
commissions (current term)
commissionship
commissionships
commissive
commissive mood
commissive moods
commissives
commissura
commissura alba
commissura anterior
commissura anterior grisea
commissura cinerea
commissura colliculorum inferiorum
commissura colliculorum superiorum
commissura fornicis

Literary usage of Commissions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"Such temporary commissions dissolve as soon as their purpose is realised.1 Besides temporary commissions, there are, however, permanent commissions in ..."

2. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"Magna Carta ordered that commissions should be issued to hear these cases in each county once a year.6 Other commissions gave to these justices of assize ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It would not be a legal argument in favor of military commissions for civilians, ... The source and origin of the power to establish military commissions, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This governor made him Court painter and showered various commissions upon him, among them the decorations of a shooting box which the received back into ..."

5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"Memorandum of the PRICES of commissions in the ARMY, and alterations in the difference ... Difference in Value between Full and Half-Pay commissions. ..."

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