Commissarial :: Commissarial (a.) Of or pertaining to a commissary.

Commissariat :: Commissariat (n.) The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

Commissariat :: Commissariat (n.) The body of officers charged with such service.

Commissaries :: Commissaries (pl. ) of Commissar.

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner..

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop..

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters..

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.

Commissaryship :: Commissaryship (n.) The office or employment of a commissary.

Commission :: Commission (n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating..

Commission :: Commission (n.) The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.

Commission :: Commission (n.) The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.

Commission :: Commission (n.) A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties..

Commission :: Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission..

Commission :: Commission (n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission..

Commission :: Commission (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another..

Commission :: Commission (n.) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city..

Commission :: Commission (n.) 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 :: Commission (v. t.) 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..

Commission :: Commission (v. t.) To send out with a charge or commission.

Commissional :: Commissional (a.) Alt. of Commissionar.

Commissionary :: Commissionary (a.) Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant..

Commissionate :: Commissionate (v. t.) To commissio.

Commissioned :: Commissioned (imp. & p. p.) of Commissio.

Commissioner :: Commissioner (n.) A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims..

Commissioner :: Commissioner (n.) An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.

Commissioning :: Commissioning (p. pr & vb. n.) of Commissio.

Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.

Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers..

Commissionship :: Commissionship (n.) The office of commissioner.

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