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commissionnaire

commissionnaire is the alternative form 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.

Forms of commissionnaire

pluralcommissionnaires

Origin of commissionnaire

French, from Latin commissio.

Questions about commissionnaire

What is commissionnaire the alternative form of?
Commissionnaire is the alternative form of commissionaire.

Words near commissionnaire in the dictionary

  1. commissioning
  2. commissioning editor
  3. commissioning editors
  4. commissionings
  5. commissionless
  6. commissionnaire
  7. commissionnaires
  8. commissions
  9. commissions de bene esse
  10. commissionship
  11. commissionships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commissionnaire (page history and authors); commissionaire (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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