COMMISSIONED
accredited, commissioned, licensed, licenced
(adjective) given official approval to act; āan accredited collegeā; ācommissioned brokerā; ālicensed pharmacistā; āauthorized representativeā
commissioned
(adjective) (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
commissioned
simple past tense and past participle of commission
Anagrams
• decommission
Source: Wiktionary
COMMISSION
Com*mis"sion, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. commissio. See Commit.]
1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of
perpetrating.
Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of
hardness. South.
2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust
shall be executed.
3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a
trust; a charge.
4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or
privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain
duties.
Let him see our commission. Shak.
5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as,
a colonel's commission.
6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the
execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.
Prescott.
7. (Com.)
(a) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
(b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three
commissions for the city.
(c) 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. Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under
Array.
– Commission of bankrupty, a commission apointing and empowering
certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged
bankrupty, and to secure the bankrupt's lands and effects for the
creditors.
– Commission of lunacy, a commission authoring and inquiry whether
a person is a lunatic or not.
– Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on commission,
as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his
compensation.
– Commission, or Commissioned, officer (Mil.), one who has a
commission, in distingtion from a noncommossioned or warrant officer.
– Commission of the peace, a commission under the great seal,
constituting one or more persons justices of the peace. [Eng.] -- To
put a vessel into commission (Naut.), to equip and man a goverment
vessel, and send it out on service after it has been laid up; esp.,
the formal act of tacking command of a vessel for service, hoisting
the flag, reading the orders, etc.
– To put a vessel out of commission (Naut.), to detach the officers
and crew and retire it from active service, temporarily or
permanently.
– To put the great seal, or the Treasury, into commission, to place
it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the
abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of
one lord keeper and accession of another. [Eng.] -- The United States
Christians Commission, an organization among the people of the North,
during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union
soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the
field and in hospitals.
– The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by
the people of the North to coƶperate with and supplement the medical
department of the Union armies during the Civil War.
Syn.
– Charge; warrant; authority; mandate; office; trust; employment.
Com*mis"sion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commissioned; p. pr & vb. n.
Commissioning.]
1. 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.
2. To send out with a charge or commission.
A chosen band He first commissions to the Latian land. Dryden.
Syn.
– To appoint; depute; authorize; empower; delegate; constitute;
ordain.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition