commissioner

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɪʃənɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɪʃənə/

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• Hyphenation: com‧mis‧sion‧er

Noun

commissioner (plural commissioners)

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.
   • 2018, Elena Cooper, Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image, page 164:

     […] the 'private nature' of commissioned pictures, particularly portraits, was frequently mentioned as the justification for two types of proposal: the ownership of painting copyright by the commissioner, or ownership of painting copyright by the artist […]

Derived terms

• commissionerate
• commissioneress
• commissionership
• subcommissioner

 

Compound words and expressions

• European Commissioner
• high commissioner
• police commissioner

 

Translations

member of a commission

• Armenian: հանձնաժողովի անդամ (hanjnažoġovi andam)
• Bulgarian: комисар m (komisar)
• Catalan: comissionat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 委員／委员 (zh) (wěiyuán)

• Czech: komisař (cs) m
• Danish: kommissær (da)
• Dutch: commissaris (nl) m
• Finnish: komissaari (fi)
• Georgian: კომისარი (ḳomisari)
• German: Kommissionsmitglied (de) n, Kommissar (de) m
• Greek: επίτροπος (el) (epítropos)
• Hindi: कमिश्नर (hi) m (kamiśnar), आयुक्त (hi) m (āyukt)
• Hungarian: bizottsági tag
• Italian: commissario (it)
• Maori: kaikōmihana, mema kōmihana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kommissær m

  Nynorsk: kommissær m

• Persian: کمیسر (fa) (komiser)
• Portuguese: comissionário m, comissário (pt) m
• Russian: член коми́ссии m (člen komíssii)
• Spanish: comisionado (es) m
• Swahili: kamishna (sw)
• Swedish: kommissionär (sv) c, kommissarie (sv) c, kommissionsledamot c
• Tagalog: kalupon
• Turkish: komiser (tr)

someone commissioned to perform certain duties — see also assignee

• Arabic: مُفَوَّض m (mufawwaḍ), مُفَوَّضَة f (mufawwaḍa)
• Armenian: հանձնակատար (hy) (hanjnakatar), կոմիսար (hy) (komisar)
• Bulgarian: представител (bg) m (predstavitel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專員／专员 (zh) (zhuānyuán), 政委 (zh) (zhèngwěi)

• Danish: kommissær (da)
• Dutch: gevolmachtigde (nl) m
• Estonian: erivolinik
• French: commissaire (fr) m or f
• Georgian: კომისარი (ḳomisari), წარმომადგენელი (c̣armomadgeneli)
• German: Kommissar (de) m, Kommissarin (de) f, Beauftragter (de) m, Beauftragte (de) f
• Hindi: कमिश्नर (hi) m (kamiśnar), आयुक्त (hi) m (āyukt)
• Hungarian: megbízott (hu), biztos (hu)
• Italian: commissario (it)
• Manx: barrantagh m
• Maori: toihau, kaikōmihana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kommissær m

  Nynorsk: kommissær m

• Persian: کمیسر (fa) (komiser)
• Portuguese: comissionário m, comissionado m
• Russian: комисса́р (ru) m (komissár), представи́тель (ru) m (predstavítelʹ), представи́тельница (ru) f (predstavítelʹnica), уполномо́ченный (ru) m (upolnomóčennyj), уполномо́ченная (ru) f (upolnomóčennaja)
• Spanish: notario (es) m, notaria (es) f
• Swahili: kamishna (sw)
• Welsh: comisiynydd m

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