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commissionaires

commissionaires is the plural of commissionaire.

Meaning of commissionaire

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.

Questions about commissionaires

What is commissionaires the plural of?
Commissionaires is the plural of commissionaire.

Words near commissionaires in the dictionary

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

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