2. Verb. (third-person singular of commission) ¹
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Definition of Commissions
1. commission [v] - See also: commission
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commissions
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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