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commissionaire

UK/kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛː/US/kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛɹ/

commissionaire noun: one entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc.

Noun

commissionaire (plural commissionaires)

  1. One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc.
  2. (UK) A uniformed doorman.
    • When the day came Nick turned up early at the bank and waited under a palm tree in the atrium. People hurried in, nodding to the commissionaire, who still wore a tailcoat and a top hat.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
  3. An undisclosed agent under European civil law.

commissionaire meaning in Tamil and Kannada

commissionaire in Tamil

பணிமுறைத் தூதர், வாயிற்காப்போன்

commissionaire in Kannada

ಕಾವಲುಗಾರ, ಬಾಗಿಲಾಳು, ದ್ವಾರಪಾಲಕ

Forms of commissionaire

pluralcommissionaires
alternative formcommissionnaire

Origin of commissionaire

Borrowed from French commissionaire, from Latin commissio. Doublet of commissioner.

Words formed from commissionaire

Questions about commissionaire

What does commissionaire mean?
Commissionaire means one entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc.
What is commissionaire in Tamil?
Commissionaire in Tamil is பணிமுறைத் தூதர், வாயிற்காப்போன். See Commissionaire meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is commissionaire?
Commissionaire is a noun.
How do you pronounce commissionaire?
Commissionaire is pronounced /kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛː/ (UK).
What is the plural of commissionaire?
The plural of commissionaire is commissionaires.

Words near commissionaire in the dictionary

  1. commission bid
  2. commission bids
  3. commission breath
  4. commission de bene esse
  5. commissionable
  6. commissionaire
  7. commissionaires
  8. commissionairess
  9. commissionairesses
  10. commissional
  11. commissionaries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commissionaire (page history and authors); commissionaire (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commissionaire (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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