1. commission - Noun
2. commission - Verb
The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.
The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
To send out with a charge or commission.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. Hannah Arendt
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. Benjamin Harrison
The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur. Kofi Annan
Well you'll have to wait 'til tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself. "Look. Jammies. Cassandra Clare
Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship. Paul Goodman
He that exceeds his commission must answer for it at his own cost. Italian Proverb