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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mil.) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above; -- of military officers. Contrasts with
noncommissioned . - adjective given official approval to act.
- adjective created according to an order.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
commission .
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- adjective given official approval to act
- adjective (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above
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Examples
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For Verve Remixed, the label commissioned electronica acts to remix songs as esteemed as Billie Holiday’s “Don’t Explain” and as bizarre as Tony Scott’s “Hare Krishna.”
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Later, in another place, a bar full of people collectively read aloud the Freee Manifesto for Guerilla Advertising (after the Revolution) in front of a new bar poster commissioned from the art collective.
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Here's one I had commissioned from the Robots & Monsters charitable program thingie last year.
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A 70-foot-long gilded screen was commissioned from the noted sculptor Harry Bertoia to separate the public from private offices on the main floor, located on the mezzanine level.
A Landmark Jewel Box Loses Its Biggest Gem Ada Louise Huxtable 2010
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Later, in another place, a bar full of people collectively read aloud the Freee Manifesto for Guerilla Advertising (after the Revolution) in front of a new bar poster commissioned from the art collective.
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To create this title, Houghton Mifflin commissioned a non-narrative text from Kathleen W. Zoehfeld (not that you'd know her name from the cover or catalog), and then digitally pasted those words over the illustrations from Curious George Takes a Job (and perhaps some other Curious George books by H.A. and Margret Rey).
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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For decades, Canadian copyright law has vested copyright in commissioned photographs – like school photographs – in the person who commissions the photo.
Boing Boing 2008
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As with that previous title, Denoël have once again commissioned cover art from Manchu.
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Maroulis came back to Kea to revive a family farm and sail his soultana, a very rare traditional wooden boat he commissioned from a craftsman on the island of Lesbos.
Dining with Dionysus 2008
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Maroulis came back to Kea to revive a family farm and sail his soultana, a very rare traditional wooden boat he commissioned from a craftsman on the island of Lesbos.
Dining with Dionysus 2008
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