Commission vs. Committee
Commissionnoun
A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
Commissionnoun
An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
Commissionnoun
The thing to be done as agent for another.
Commissionnoun
A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
Commissionnoun
A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
Commissionnoun
The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
Commissionverb
(transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
Commissionverb
(transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art)
Commissionverb
(transitive) To put into active service
Commissionnoun
The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
Commissionnoun
The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
Commissionnoun
The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
Commissionnoun
A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
Commissionnoun
A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
Commissionnoun
A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
Commissionnoun
The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
Commissionverb
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.
Commissionverb
To send out with a charge or commission.
Commissionnoun
a special group delegated to consider some matter;
Commissionnoun
a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary);
Commissionnoun
the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
Commissionnoun
the state of being in good working order and ready for operation;
Commissionnoun
a group of representatives or delegates
Commissionnoun
a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something;
Commissionnoun
an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
Commissionnoun
the act of committing a crime
Commissionnoun
a special assignment that is given to a person or group;
Commissionverb
put into commission; equip for service; of ships
Commissionverb
place an order for
Commissionverb
charge with a task
Commissionnoun
an instruction, command, or role given to a person or group
Commissionnoun
an order for something, especially a work of art, to be produced specially
Commissionnoun
a work produced in response to a commission
Commissionnoun
the authority to perform a task or certain duties
Commissionnoun
a group of people entrusted by a government or other official body with authority to do something
Commissionnoun
a sum, typically a set percentage of the value involved, paid to an agent in a commercial transaction
Commissionnoun
a warrant conferring the rank of officer in an army, navy, or air force
Commissionnoun
the action of committing a crime or offence
Commissionverb
order or authorize the production of (something)
Commissionverb
order or authorize (a person or organization) to do or produce something
Commissionverb
bring (something newly produced) into working condition
Commissionverb
appoint (someone) to the rank of officer in an army, navy, or air force
Committeenoun
a body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols
Committeenoun
(archaic) a guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.
Committeenoun
One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.
Committeenoun
One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.
Committeenoun
a special group delegated to consider some matter;
Committeenoun
a self-constituted organization to promote something
Committeenoun
a group of people appointed for a specific function by a larger group and typically consisting of members of that group
Committeenoun
(in the UK) a committee appointed by Parliament to consider the details of proposed legislation
Committeenoun
(in the UK) the whole House of Commons when sitting as a committee.
Committeenoun
a person entrusted with the charge of another person or another person's property.
Committeenoun
a person who has been judicially committed to the charge of another because of insanity or mental disability.
Committee
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to an assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly.
