Tra từ commission - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

com·mis·sion AW [commission commissions] noun, verb BrE [kəˈmɪʃn] NAmE [kəˈmɪʃn]
noun

OFFICIAL GROUP
1. (often Commission)countable an official group of people who have been given responsibility to control sth, or to find out about sth, usually for the government
•the European Commission
• (BrE) The government has set up a commission of inquiry into the disturbances at the prison.
•a commission on human rights

MONEY
2. uncountable, countable an amount of money that is paid to sb for selling goods and which increases with the amount of goods that are sold
• You get a 10% commission on everything you sell.
• He earned £2 000 in commission last month.
•In this job you work on commission (= are paid according to the amount you sell).
3. uncountable an amount of money that is charged by a bank, etc. for providing a particular service
•1% commission is charged for cashing traveller's cheques.

FOR ART/MUSIC, ETC.
4. countable a formal request to sb to design or make a piece of work such as a building or a painting
•a commission to design the new parliament building

IN ARMED FORCES
5. countable an officer's position in the armed forces
•He resigned his commission when he got married.

OF CRIME
6. uncountable (formal)the act of doing sth wrong or illegal
•the commission of a crime

Word Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin commissio(n-), from committere ‘entrust’ (in medieval Latin ‘put into custody’), from com- ‘with’ + mittere ‘put or send’.

Example Bank:
•I have received a private commission to paint the prince's family.
•Most of the salespeople are on commission.
•She earned $2 000 in commission last month.
•That bank charges a high commission for cashing traveller's cheques.
•The firm will accept commissions for most types of architectural work.
•The government has set up a joint commission to consider the problem.
•They get a 10% commission on every encyclopedia they sell.
•a commission on domestic violence
•the commission for racial equality
•to work on a commission basis
•He was appointed to head a commission of enquiry into the recent riots.
•In this job you work on commission.
•One per cent commission is charged for cashing traveller's cheques.
•She would not accept the commission, saying it did not pay enough.
•She's a member of the IOC medical commission.
•Sweden's Environment Commission has ruled against the dam project.
•The commission is expected to report its findings next month.
•The government set up a fact-finding commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the accident.
•The work will be done by commission.
•This is the first meeting of an intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation between the two countries.
•Who won the commission to design the new town hall?
•You get a 10% commission on everything you sell.
•the Atomic Energy Commission
Idiom: ↑in of commission

verb

PIECE OF ART/MUSIC, ETC.
1. to officially ask sb to write, make or create sth or to do a task for you
•~ sb to do sth She has been commissioned to write a new national anthem.
•~ sth Publishers have commissioned a French translation of the book.
•The survey on consumer taste was commissioned by local stores.

IN ARMED FORCES
2. usually passive to choose sb as an officer in one of the armed forces
•~ sb She was commissioned in 2007.
•~ sb (as) sth He has just been commissioned (as a) pilot officer.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin commissio(n-), from committere ‘entrust’ (in medieval Latin ‘put into custody’), from com- ‘with’ + mittere ‘put or send’.