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commissioner
[ kuh-mish-uh-ner ]
noun
- a person commissioned to act officially; member of a commission.
- a government official or representative in charge of a department or district:
the police commissioner; the commissioner of a colony.
- an official chosen by an athletic association to exercise broad administrative or judicial authority:
the baseball commissioner.
commissioner
/ əˈɪʃəə /
noun
- a person authorized to perform certain tasks or endowed with certain powers
- government
- any of several types of civil servant
- an ombudsman See also Health Service Commissioner Parliamentary Commissioner
- a member of a commission
Derived Forms
- dzˈDzԱˌ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- dz·sDz·· noun
- ܲcdz·sDz· noun
- subdz·sDz·· noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of commissioner1
Example Sentences
Department of Justice in August for allegedly making illegal payments to a former Philippines elections commissioner in order to get its voting machines and services used in the country’s 2016 election.
As part of the role, Wales' future generations commissioner writes a progress report every five years, to be published a year before a Senedd election.
Rates of knife crime, violence against women, and theft could rise in London without more government funding, the Metropolitan Police commissioner has warned.
In January, Trump fired two Democratic commissioners and the agency’s general counsel.
The panel was meant to be bipartisan with three commissioners from the sitting president’s party and two from the opposition.
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