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commissioned

/kəˈmɪʃənd/

commissioned adjective: holding a commission; officially appointed. Also the simple past and past participle of commission.

Adjective

commissioned (not comparable)

  1. Holding a commission; officially appointed.
    • And be it further enacted, &c. That any commissioned auctioneer who shall violate any of the provisions contained in this act, shall for any such offence or violation, forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the manner prescribed for other forfeitures in the act aforesaid,1836, Acts passed at the Second Session of the Twelfth Legislature of the State of Louisiana, page 52
    • Nothing in this Act contained shall subject ot forfeiture any commissioned ship of any foreign state, or give to any British court over or in respect of any ship entitled to recognition as a commissioned ship of any foreign state any jurisdiction which it would not have had if this Act had not...1870, The Law Reports: The public general statutes - Volume 5, page 571
  2. Specially ordered.
    • Completion marks the end of the process where the commissioned artwork is delivered to the client.2008, Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design, page 103
    • In Figure 47, a doodle of a cat has been added to a commissioned mural, and subsequently covered by a poster.2019, Alexandra Parker, Samkelisiwe Khanyile, Kate Joseph, Where do we draw the line?: Graffiti in Maboneng, Johannesburg, page 99

Also used as

commissioned is also the simple past and past participle of commission.

commissioned meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

commissioned in Urdu

کمیشن شدہ, کمیشن کیا گیا, کمیشنڈ

commissioned in Bengali

কমিশন করা হয়েছে, কমিশন্ড করা হয়েছে

commissioned in Telugu

కమిషన్ చేయబడింది

commissioned in Malayalam

കമ്മീഷൻ ചെയ്തു, കമ്മീഷൻ ചെയ്തവർ, കമ്മീഷൻ ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടു
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commissioned in Punjabi
ਕਮਿਸ਼ਨ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ, ਕਮਿਸ਼ਨਡ, ਕਮਿਸ਼ਨ ਕੀਤਾ
commissioned in Gujarati
કમિશન્ડ કરેલું, કમિશન્ડ કરાયેલ, કમિશન્ડ કરવામાં આવ્યું
commissioned in Nepali
कमिशन्ड गरियो, कमिशन्ड गरिएको

Examples of commissioned in a sentence

  • James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents.
  • He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months.
  • “There are two misconceptions regarding gambling businesses,” the Christiansen study, commissioned by the BGOA, said.

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Words formed from commissioned

Phrases with commissioned

Questions about commissioned

What does commissioned mean?
Commissioned means holding a commission; officially appointed.
What is commissioned in Urdu?
Commissioned in Urdu is کمیشن شدہ, کمیشن کیا گیا, کمیشنڈ. See Commissioned meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is commissioned?
Commissioned is an adjective.
How do you pronounce commissioned?
Commissioned is pronounced /kəˈmɪʃənd/.

Words near commissioned in the dictionary

  1. commissionary
  2. commissionate
  3. commissionated
  4. commissionates
  5. commissionating
  6. commissioned
  7. commissioned officer
  8. commissioned officers
  9. commissionee
  10. commissionees
  11. commissioner

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: commissioned (page history and authors); commissioned (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); commissioned (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); commissioned (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); commissioned (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); commissioned (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); commissioned (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); commissioned (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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