commission : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States
  AEC.
  

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• noun an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue
  blue ribbon committee.
  

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• (Mil.), one who has a commission, in distingtion from a noncommossioned or warrant officer.

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• one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his compensation.

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• . (Eng. Hist.) See under Array.

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• 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.

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• a commission authoring and inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not.

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• a commission under the great seal, constituting one or more persons justices of the peace. Eng.

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights
  

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with drug traffic
  

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies
  

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• noun a municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission
  

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• noun a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps
  

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• noun a commissioned officer in the navy
  

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• noun a military officer holding a commission
  

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• noun a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
  Economic and Social Council commission.
  

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of African nations
  

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East
  

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Europe
  

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Latin America
  

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• noun a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
  Economic and Social Council commission.
  

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• noun a commission delegated to supervise an election
  

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• noun a commission delegated to ensure opportunities for the expression of opposing views
  

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• noun an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite
  FCC.
  

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• noun an independent agency of the United States federal government that maintains fair and free competition; enforces federal antitrust laws; educates the public about identity theft
  FTC.
  

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• noun an embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another
  

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• a court of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England erected and united to the regal power by Queen Elizabeth in 1559. On account of the abuse of its powers it was abolished in 1641.

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• noun a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995
  ICC.
  
  • the ICC was established in 1887 as the first federal agency

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• The governmental commision charged with making and enforcing regulations concerning interstate commerce.

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• . See under Gaol.

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• noun an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
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• noun a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s
  National Liberation Army; ELN; CNPZ.
  

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• noun an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants
  NRC.
  

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• noun a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments
  

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with population control
  

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• noun an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates
  

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• noun an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors
  SEC.
  

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with social development
  

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• noun the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with statistical data from member nations
  

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• 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.

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• an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War.

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• (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.

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• (Naut.), to detach the officers and crew and retire it from active service, temporarily or permanently.

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• 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.

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• noun a commission delegated to supervise the zoning of areas for residential or commercial use
  

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