Synonyms of commissioning

commissioning

verb

present participle of commission

1

as in appointing

to appoint as one's representative

plans to commission a deputy to investigate the matter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appointing
• delegating
• deputing
• deputizing
• assigning
• nominating
• charging
• designating
• naming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• abrogating
• abdicating

2

as in enabling

to give official or legal power to

was commissioned lieutenant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enabling
• authorizing
• empowering
• licensing
• qualifying
• permitting
• accrediting
• certifying
• investing
• chartering
• vesting
• allowing
• warranting
• approving
• entitling
• installing
• sanctioning
• endorsing
• validating
• confirming
• initiating
• affirming
• inaugurating
• credentialing
• inducting
• letting
• privileging
• instating
• OK'ing
• clearing
• enfranchising
• swearing in

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• preventing
• excluding
• disqualifying
• stopping
• denying
• blocking
• banning
• discouraging
• inhibiting
• obstructing
• hindering
• impeding
• prohibiting
• constraining
• holding back
• barring
• disallowing
• shutting out
• forbidding
• proscribing
• vetoing
• enjoining
• outlawing
• disbarring
• disenfranchising
• disfranchising
• interdicting

3

as in entrusting

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to

was commissioned to do the biography

Synonyms & Similar Words

• entrusting
• tasking
• trusting
• charging
• assigning
• imposing
• recommending
• conferring
• delegating
• authorizing
• committing
• empowering
• allocating
• confiding
• allotting
• investing
• consigning
• relegating
• reposing

4

as in nominating

to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty

commissioned him to head the office of veterans affairs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appointing
• nominating
• assigning
• naming
• constituting
• designating
• attaching
• placing
• detailing
• authorizing
• inducting
• delegating
• creating
• installing
• choosing
• electing
• selecting
• inaugurating
• ordaining
• instituting
• consecrating
• deputing
• anointing
• investing
• deputizing
• drafting
• crowning
• making
• instating
• enthroning
• singling (out)
• handpicking
• voting (in)
• throning
• destining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• firing
• dismissing
• discharging
• expelling
• removing
• overthrowing
• ejecting
• displacing
• ousting
• deposing
• throwing out
• evicting
• dethroning
• unseating
• unmaking
• uncrowning
• blackballing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of commissioning

Launched as a rideshare payload on SpaceX's Transporter-17 mission, BOHR is reported to have achieved insertion into low Earth orbit and is being readied for commissioning. — David Szondy july 07, New Atlas, 8 July 2026

Hyo and his fellow producers began by scouting manga artists over social media and commissioning some 200 pieces of concept art imagining the Vapor’s possible forms. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026

The country converted Russia’s T-7 tokamak into the HT-7 in the 1990s before commissioning EAST in 2006 as the world’s first fully superconducting tokamak. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026

And Ben Stiller went the third-party route by commissioning a pair of Nike Force 1 Lows. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 18 June 2026

Even without independent investigative authority, the commission has spent the past few years reviewing a backlog of internal affairs cases, commissioning an outside audit of police misconduct investigations and weighing in on department policies. — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026

Was there any coming to terms at all, even in just commissioning this film, with letting people in to your feelings on that level? — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 June 2026

All three nations have built-out creative and commissioning teams. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 May 2026

The country has spent two decades building museums, commissioning public art, and assembling blue-chip collections. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 May 2026