commissioner

Meaning

1. A member of a commission.
2. Someone commissioned to perform certain duties.
3. An official in charge of a government department, especially a police force.
4. Someone who commissions something.

Synonyms

commissar

administrative official

inspector general

secretary

superintendent

representative

commission

commission agent

committee

executive

government minister

government official

initiator

mayor

middleman

prescriptive

procurator

requester

syndic

trustee

book-maker

commissar’s

commissioner’s

designee

Board of Commissioner

district officer

middle-man

government agent

political commissar

vestry man

chief administrator

commissar's

agent

commissioner's

ambassador

assignee

chief

client

commissary

Translations

commissaire

commissario

Kommissar

comisionado

comisario

comissário

lasthebber

comissari

Bevollmächtigter

commissaris

gevolmachtigde

gecommitteerde

Beauftragter

διοικητής

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈmɪʃənɚ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: commissioner

In summary

From Middle English commissioner, from Anglo-Norman commissionaire, from Medieval Latin commissiōnārius. Doublet of commissionaire. See commission.

Sentences

Spencer Fullerton Baird was appointed its first commissioner .