Synonyms of commissions

commissions 1 of 2

noun

plural of commission

1

as in mandates

the granting of power to perform various acts or duties

President Jefferson's commission to Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mandates
• accreditations
• authorizations
• delegations
• licenses
• promotions
• empowerments
• commendations
• consignments
• facilitations
• entrustments
• orderings

2

as in executions

the doing of an action

a single burglar was responsible for the commission of all the break-ins

Synonyms & Similar Words

• executions
• accomplishments
• implementations
• perpetrations
• fulfillments
• prosecutions
• performances
• achievements
• enactments
• discharges
• applications
• pursuances
• administrations
• expeditions
• managements
• dispatches
• handlings
• operations
• directions
• practices

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonperformances
• nonfulfillments

3

as in committees

a select group of persons assigned to consider or take action on some matter

reported to a UN commission on the AIDS crisis

Synonyms & Similar Words

• committees
• panels
• subcommittees
• missions
• delegations
• standing committees
• steering committees
• councils
• congresses
• assemblies
• bodies
• synods
• convocations

4

as in appointments

the state or fact of being chosen for a position or duty

her commission as head of the investigation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appointments
• jobs
• assignments
• elections
• designations
• nominations
• positions
• offices
• situations
• gigs
• stations
• placements
• investments
• rankings
• installations
• delegations
• billets
• installments
• authorizations
• spots
• places
• deputations
• destinations
• choices
• selections
• investitures
• inductions
• ordinations
• emplacements
• anointments

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismissals
• discharges
• firings
• expulsions
• rejections
• depositions
• dismissions
• removals
• evictions
• ejections
• blackballs
• overthrows
• ousters
• dethronements

commissions

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of commission

1

as in delegates

to appoint as one's representative

plans to commission a deputy to investigate the matter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• delegates
• appoints
• deputes
• deputizes
• charges
• assigns
• nominates
• names
• designates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• abrogates
• abdicates

2

as in enables

to give official or legal power to

was commissioned lieutenant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enables
• empowers
• authorizes
• licenses
• permits
• qualifies
• charters
• vests
• warrants
• certifies
• entitles
• invests
• allows
• credentials
• accredits
• sanctions
• approves
• privileges
• endorses
• installs
• confirms
• affirms
• instates
• initiates
• validates
• lets
• inaugurates
• inducts
• OKs
• swears in
• enfranchises
• clears

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• blocks
• disqualifies
• bars
• prevents
• excludes
• bans
• stops
• denies
• discourages
• hinders
• holds back
• obstructs
• constrains
• inhibits
• shuts out
• impedes
• prohibits
• forbids
• disallows
• vetoes
• outlaws
• disbars
• disfranchises
• proscribes
• enjoins
• disenfranchises
• interdicts

3

as in tasks

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to

was commissioned to do the biography

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tasks
• entrusts
• charges
• trusts
• assigns
• delegates
• imposes
• confers
• recommends
• commits
• authorizes
• allocates
• empowers
• reposes
• confides
• allots
• relegates
• consigns
• invests

4

as in appoints

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

• appoints
• nominates
• names
• constitutes
• assigns
• details
• places
• delegates
• designates
• attaches
• institutes
• authorizes
• elects
• inducts
• chooses
• installs
• crowns
• ordains
• creates
• deputes
• drafts
• instates
• deputizes
• selects
• consecrates
• inaugurates
• invests
• singles (out)
• thrones
• enthrones
• votes (in)
• anoints
• destines
• makes
• handpicks

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• discharges
• dismisses
• fires
• expels
• removes
• overthrows
• deposes
• throws out
• displaces
• unmakes
• ejects
• evicts
• ousts
• uncrowns
• dethrones
• unseats
• blackballs

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of commissions

Noun

The council would decide which commissions received those powers and could later revoke them. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026

Rama compares the situation to that of China, which 20 years ago was giving its most prominent building commissions to foreign architects, including some of the same ones working in Albania today. — Fred A. Bernstein, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2026

Skulptur Projekte Münster has announced 13 additional artist commissions that will appear across the German city when its sixth edition opens next year. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2026

Proceeds from Dia’s fall gala will go toward commissions, publications, lectures and other educational programs in addition to the foundation’s restoration plans for existing spaces and site-specific works. — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2026

United Nations commissions have formally concluded that Russian military actions amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity — murder, forced displacement and systematic persecution. — Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2026

The program hasn’t yet gone to the harbor commissions for approval. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

One network with the scale to hunt scammers gaming commissions and the plugins quietly hijacking commissions at checkout. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026

But commissions influence their recommendations in complex ways. — Tony Lo Sasso, STAT, 29 Oct. 2026

Verb

Desperate to see him and be by his side during his final days, Valeria commissions his artist wife, Isla (Hall), to paint her portrait— covertly infiltrating the intimate inner workings of Martin’s home and family. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2026

The True Blood actor plays a character who seems like the ideal husband for Olivia Colman’s Fisherwoman in the steamy fairy tale about a town outcast who commissions Peter Dinklage’s Basketmaker to craft her a partner. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2026

The medieval-period romance showcases British star Olivia Colman as a spinster fishmonger who commissions a wicker husband (Alexander Skarsgard). — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2026

Thanks to Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s funny, poignant — and sexy — folk tale, starring Olivia Colman as a village fisherwoman who commissions a fantastical husband, audiences won’t want to forget it. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

At the same time, Niccolò also secretly commissions the openly gay upstart Michelangelo (Brennan Pickman-Thoon) to paint the Battle of Cascina. — Charles Lewis Iii, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026

Black Bear’s Wicker, based on author Ursula Wills-Jones’s short story, The Wicker Husband, follows a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who commissions the local basketmaker (Peter Dinklage) to weave her a husband (Skarsgård). — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026

He’s further slighted after the Emperor commissions him to remake one of his old operas so audiences might remember the country’s past successes. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 May 2026

The government commissions murals and sculptures for schools, libraries, and hospitals. — John P. Murphy, ARTnews.com, 5 Apr. 2026