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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Factorage \Fac"tor*age\, n. [Cf. F. factorage.] The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a {commission}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Commission \Com*mis"sion\, n. [F., fr L. commissio. See {Commit}.] 1. The act of committing, doing or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. --South. 2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed. 3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge. 4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties. Let him see our commission. --Shak. 5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as a colonel's commission. 6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as the interstate commerce commission. A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter. --Prescott. 7. (Com.) a The acting under authority of or on account of another. b The thing to be done as agent for another; as I have three commissions for the city. c The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as a commission of ten per cent on sales. See {Del credere}. {Commission of array}. (Eng. Hist.) See under {Array}. {Commission of bankruptcy}, a commission appointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors. {Commission of lunacy}, a commission authorizing an inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not {Commission merchant}, one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others receiving a rate per cent as his compensation. {Commission, or Commissioned}, {officer} (Mil.), one who has a commission, in distinction from a noncommissioned or warrant officer. {Commission of the peace}, a commission under the great seal, constituting one or more persons justices of the peace. [Eng.] {To put a vessel into commission} (Naut.), to equip and man a government vessel, and send it out on service after it has been laid up esp., From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Commission \Com*mis"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commissioned}; p. pr & vb n. {Commissioning}.] 1. To give a commission to to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as to commission persons to perform certain acts to commission an officer. 2. To send out with a charge or commission. A chosen band He first commissions to the Latian land. --Dryden. Syn: To appoint; depute; authorize; empower; delegate; constitute; ordain. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: commission n 1: a special group delegated to consider some matter [syn: {committee}] 2: a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary); "he works on commission" 3: the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions [syn: {commissioning}] 4: the state of being in good working order and ready for operation; "put the ships into comission"; "the motor was out of commission" 5: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: {deputation}, {delegation}, {delegacy}, {mission}] 6: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: {charge}, {direction}] 7: an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces [syn: {military commission}] 8: the act of committing a crime [syn: {perpetration}] 9: a task that has been assigned to a person or group "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: {mission}, {charge}] v 1: put into commission; equip for service; of ships 2: place an order for 3: charge with a task
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