Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The holding of a commission; a commissionership.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of commissioner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The role or office of
commissioner .
Etymologies
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commission + -ship
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Examples
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The _net_ amount of the SALE of this unparalleled mass of books is said to have been £55,000: a large sum, when the deductions from commissionship and the government-tax be taken into consideration. [
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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