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commission

1.
money paid to a salesperson or an agent, usually a percentage of the sales made She gets 10% commission on everything she sells.

2.
a job given to a person or company to do He has an interesting commissionâ€”to write a history of museums.

3.
a group of people officially appointed to examine a problem The government has appointed a commission of inquiry to look into the problems of small exporters.

He is the chairman of the government commission on export subsidies.

â– verb to arrange for somebody to do some work in exchange for payment He was commissioned to design a new logo.

âƒž to commission a book to ask an author to write a book She has commissioned a series of books on world history.

They never publish works submitted on spec, and commission everything in their list.

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