COMMISSIONED Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

commissioned

verb

Definition of commissioned

past tense of commission

as in appointed

to appoint as one's representative plans to commission a deputy to investigate the matter

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as in enabled

to give official or legal power to was commissioned lieutenant

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as in entrusted

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to was commissioned to do the biography

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as in nominated

to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty commissioned him to head the office of veterans affairs

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Recent Examples of commissioned There’s Haroon Mirza’s Stone Circle, commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, another venerable local institution. — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026 The photography by Andrew Jacobs is juxtaposed against works by the Belgian artist Katrien de Blauwer, commissioned for the project to evoke emotion through color. — David Moin, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 Verve commissioned global design collective RIOS to design a headquarters that reflects the agency’s independent culture and ambitions. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 The watershed council commissioned a study, published in 2017 by Grand Valley State University, to evaluate the economic impact of the Huron River. — CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 As part of that effort, The AJC commissioned background research on the two candidates seeking to become Georgia’s next governor. — Chris Joyner, AJC.com, 14 Oct. 2026 It was commissioned by Jack Bootle, head of specialist factual commissioning, and Louise Thornton, head of multi-platform commissioning, BBC Scotland. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 As for the main home—commissioned by Pittman and Dowell—the impressive, seven-sided structure wraps around a central courtyard and seamlessly integrates Maltzan’s recent addition. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 In Wicker, Skarsgård slipped into a much more textured material to play the Wicker Husband of a reclusive spinster Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman), who commissioned a Basketmaker (Peter Dinklage) to weave together her fantasy man. — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for commissioned

Verb

The City Council appointed Harrington to office after former Mayor Vi Lyles resigned midterm.

— Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2026
Santoyo, 72, was appointed by the state to the board of managers in 2016.

— Sophia Veneziano, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2026

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But the Houthis hold significant territory along Yemen's Red Sea coast, which has enabled them to threaten vessels there and in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the southern gateway to the Red Sea and another key chokepoint for global energy supplies.

— Frank Andrews, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Besides profound conversation, HomeView, when paired with a compatible Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone or iPad, can use personal context from apps such as Messages and Calendar to garner more relevant responses.

— muskanbhatia, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of enabled

Verb

For a lot of the people at that desk, this is the first job anyone has entrusted them with.

— Zaharia-Gabriel Sidere, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The second challenge is pursuing smart development while protecting the natural and community character entrusted to us.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of entrusted

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Iamaleava is expected to miss the rest of this season with a knee injury, according to a person with knowledge of the injury not authorized to discuss it publicly.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Details surface about airport fatalities The attack struck an airport complex housing terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights, a regional official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to the media.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of authorized

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One is tasked with reporting and response, another with assessing critical infrastructure and working with the private sector, and a third with law enforcement and responsibility, Clayton said.

— Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
More efficient circuits… Anthropic tasked Claude with optimizing eight computational building blocks across chemistry, physics simulation, optimization, number theory, and numerical computing.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of tasked

Verb

The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in the early months of 1993.

— Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
America was cultural dynamism that constituted soft power, from Hollywood and hip-hop to the once finest university system in the world.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026