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 According to a poll commissioned by Le Figaro, some sixty-two per cent believe that the students’ actions are justified. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 9 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 Film Festival Content Market presentation and the Coming Next From Japan showcase at March’s Series Mania Forum, is produced by AX-ON, Nippon TV, ICS Nordic and Boat Rocker Studios, and commissioned by Japan’s Wowow and Finland’s Nelonen. — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 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 Instead of paying an actor or voiceover artist to deliver the ad’s slogan, Royal Mail commissioned the ad’s producers to cut the human from the loop. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026 An outside investigation commissioned by the board found no evidence of improper conduct by Hill but identified concerns about leadership and district operations. — Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026 In 2025, TikTok helped generate $12 billion in advertising and merchandise sales for those businesses and supported 52,000 jobs in the state, said the PF Global report, which was commissioned by TikTok. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 So even while Veach still was Reid’s personal assistant, Reid commissioned him to rate the top receivers for the 2008 NFL Draft — a position of need for the Eagles. — Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

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Luis Antonio Tagle, 69, a Filipino cardinal, was appointed by Pope Leo XIV as the new dean of the College of Cardinals, elevating his profile as a papal contender in the process.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
He was appointed by City Manager Peter Iglesias to the Gables’ planning and zoning board and previously served for nearly two decades on the county’s planning and zoning board.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of appointed

Verb

The company is working on a Siri AI-enabled smart home hub that comes with a six-inch display that users can mount to their wall or place on a table, Bloomberg has reported.

— Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
Consider Inside Membership a slick, Uber-like alternative to traditional PR agencies, streamlining the process of bookings, content creation and measurement of ROI, since it’s all enabled by proprietary technology.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of enabled

Verb

McAvoy also entrusted some of his gold to minicab proprietor Brian Perry.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
The authority entrusted to police officers carries with it an equally significant responsibility to act lawfully, ethically and with integrity.

— Brian Maass, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of entrusted

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Her most recent work, Elegies (2023), a documentary about Hong Kong poetry, opened Hong Kong International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Horse Awards.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026
His operas, including Eurydice and Crossing, have been performed everywhere from New York’s Metropolitan Opera to the Los Angeles Opera, and the Metropolitan’s Eurydice was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2023.

— Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of nominated

Verb

Something may need to be postponed, delegated, or simplified.

— Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 4 Oct. 2026
As regulatory scrutiny increases, supply chain accountability offers leadership a competitive advantage if it’s viewed through a different lens than something that can be delegated or assumed.

— Ed Ryan, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of delegated

Verb

That's according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly and cautioned the plans could shift.

— NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
As synthetic media and autonomous systems proliferate, organizations will need to verify identity, prove content provenance and determine whether AI agents are authorized to act.

— Amit Sinha, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of authorized

Verb

Their day jobs are with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a specialized force tasked with guarding the peaks and passes of India’s 2,167-mile (3,488-kilometer) long Himalayan border with China.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
While the Florida Panthers received relatively good news about the injuries to Aleksander Barkov and Brad Marchand — Barkov out six to eight weeks, Marchand six weeks — the team still is tasked with figuring out how to replace their star forwards.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of tasked

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This constituted an 85% year-over-year increase in economic impact compared to the 2025 show.

— Paul Grein, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, in England and the United States and across continental Europe, statutes that punished idleness sharpened into vagrancy laws that gave police discretionary power to identify when a form of nonaction constituted criminal disorder.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026