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 The score was originally commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet’s artistic director, Tamara Rojo, with choreography by Aszure Barton. — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Aug. 2026 Kaufman was a Jewish émigré from Buenos Aires who had clients in Manhattan and had been commissioned to build another house on the island for shoe designer Danny Berk. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026 And so, in July, the local emissaries of the State Department decided to tweak the decor at the US Embassy to the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo—including removing artwork that had been commissioned to hang permanently on the walls. — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026 During a 1994 drought, rationing left the San Juan metro area with water available only every second or third day, according to a 2020 report commissioned by the American Society of Civil Engineers. — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 One customer with enough money even commissioned Porsche to build a one-off variant, dubbed the Flachbau RS, through its exclusive Sonderwunsch program. — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026 This outlined how Screen Scotland had commissioned a piece of work aimed at exploring an industry event that would replace the Edinburgh TV Festival, which is next year moving to Manchester after 51 years. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026 Fifty-four missiles in all were commissioned at 18 sites each in Arizona, Arkansas and Kansas. — Rebecca 'becca' Dyer, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2026 That’s according to a May 2026 survey of 1,003 full-time US professional workers commissioned by Software Finder. — Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

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In 2023, at age 38, he had been appointed to a professorship in sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, becoming the youngest Black professor in the institution’s 800-year history.

— Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
Glasner sought the advice of former Forest midfielder Andy Reid — who has been appointed as the head of football development this summer — to ask which of the young players were ready to be involved in Portugal.

— Paul Taylor, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of appointed

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The advent of polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing, in the nineteen-eighties, enabled scientists to make numerous copies of the DNA or RNA in a sample, and that dramatically increased the sensitivity of diagnostic tests.

— Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
The adversaries' willingness to endure pain and the determination of their leaders to survive have sometimes enabled them to play a long game, outwaiting American patience.

— Susan Page, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of enabled

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District 203 is entrusted with hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer resources.

— Jennifer Bruzan Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Throughout his career, Satsky has been entrusted with highly confidential information involving some of the largest and most significant transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors, his lawyer, Anello said.

— Chase Jordan August 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of entrusted

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Critics of consolidating pretrial under probation units say that law enforcement officers should not be delegated to deal with presumably innocent clients.

— Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Once again, the brand delegated cultural authority rather than dictating it from on high.

— Michelle Bruton, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of delegated

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The Vigiles were also tasked with maintaining public order at night, and their nearby barracks used water from an aqueduct.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Launched on August 10, Lunar Orbiter 1 was tasked with taking close-up pictures of the moon, in particular, nine possible landing sites for the upcoming Apollo missions.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of tasked

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Johnson, the East Moline Democrat who spurned membership on the working group, noted it was constituted by lawmakers who had publicly spoken out in support of Welch in the fallout over his handling of the Benton scandal.

— Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
In 1970 people with tenure or tenure-track jobs constituted 73% of those teaching at colleges and universities.

— Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026