COMMISSIONED Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

commissioned

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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 Situated in China’s Jiangsu Province, the Huai’an Salt Cavern Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) demonstration project has recently been fully commissioned. —

Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026 The report’s description states that it was commissioned to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act. —

Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026 The improvement district commissioned a study in 2024 that found the River District’s projected additional residents and businesses would support a smaller-format grocery store, Strecker said. —

Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026 That’s according to a new poll of 806 Boise voters commissioned by the Gem State Housing Alliance and the Welcoming Neighbors Network, a housing advocacy group pushing for zoning changes to open more avenues for denser, smaller and less- expensive homes. —

Mark Dee march 3, Idaho Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026 Khork graduated from Florida Southern College in 2014 and was commissioned as a military police officer in the Army reserve that same year, the city said. —

Kerry Breen, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026 Khork was commissioned as a Military Police Officer in the Army Reserve in 2014, and he was deployed to Saudi Arabia in 2018; Guantanamo Bay in 2021; and Poland in 2024. —

Chad De Guzman, Time, 4 Mar. 2026 The owner of Sidecca boutique commissioned a muralist to paint a tribute to Altadena after her store was closed by the Eaton fire, and again by floods the following year. —

Solvej Schou, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026 Besides the inevitable Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and George Gershwin, there’s the world premiere of five works by American composers specially commissioned for this occasion by Orchestra Lumos. —

Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2026

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Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was appointed by a committee of senior Shiite clerics after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the highest authority in the country for more than three decades, was killed in an airstrike, the United States.

— Christine Valora, The Washington Examiner, 8 Mar. 2026
Carlsbad Mayor Keith Blackburn, who was first appointed to the committee 16 years ago, praised SANDAG for the work done so far.

— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026