What does commission mean?
Word: Commission
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Commission means an official group given the power to do a particular job; also a task given to someone, such as an artist, or a share of the price paid to a person who makes a sale.
Synonyms: committee, board, fee
How do you spell commission?
Syllables: com - mis - sion
Tricky part: Keep the double m straight after the o.
Watch out for: comission, commitsion, cammission
Memory tip: Two m's come right after the o, as in committee.
Idioms and Phrases
- out of commission: not working or not available for use Example: "The lift in our building was out of commission for a whole week."
Commission in a sentence
Example 1: The salesman earns a commission on every scooter he sells.
Example 2: A commission was set up to study traffic jams in the city.
Example 3: The museum gave the sculptor a commission for a bronze statue.
Fun Fact
Commission shares its Latin root, mittere, to send, with mission, message and transmit. A person on a commission is, in a sense, sent to do a job.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Only one word in the list is spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of that word.
1. secretery 2. parliment 3. commission 4. goverment
a) a person who handles letters and records for an office
b) the group of elected people who make a country's laws
c) a body of people chosen to look into or run something
d) the people who run a country or state
Show answer
c) a body of people chosen to look into or run something. Commission is right as it stands; the other three should be secretary, parliament and government.
Word Connection
Choose the word closest in meaning to commission as used in the sentence:
The artist received a commission to paint a mural for the new railway station.
a) assignment
b) penalty
c) permission
d) invitation
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a) assignment. Here a commission is a job handed to the artist, which is an assignment.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
The shopkeeper takes a small smionmicso on each phone recharge he sells.
a) omission
b) compassion
c) commission
d) commotion
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c) commission. Commotion has a t, omission only one m, and compassion an a; the ten letters can only make commission.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
At the book fair, the seller who found the most new customers received a commishion of five per cent on every set of encyclopaedias, and he spent it on a new bicycle.
a) bicycle
b) commishion
c) customers
d) encyclopaedias
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b) commishion. The ending sounds like shun, but the word finishes with the ssion of mission.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In a shop, a commission is ____.
a) a monthly salary paid whatever the sales
b) a discount offered on a bulk order
c) a tip left by a happy customer
d) extra money a salesperson earns on each sale
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d) extra money a salesperson earns on each sale
2. What does the Election Commission of India do?
a) prints and issues the country's currency
b) runs the trains across the country
c) collects income tax from citizens
d) organises and supervises elections
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d) organises and supervises elections
