Commission
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Commission may refer to:
- Commission (remuneration), a form of payment to an agent for services rendered
- Commission (document), a document given to commissioned officers.
- Commissioning, a process or service provided to validate the completeness and accuracy of a project or venture
- Project commissioning, the process of assuring that all systems and components of a building or industrial plant are designed, installed, tested, operated, and maintained according to the operational requirements of the owner or final client
- Building commissioning, a quality assurance process during and following building construction
- Ship commissioning, placing a warship in active military duty
- Commissioned officer, who derives authority directly from a sovereign power
- Contrast with Non-commissioned officers
- Statutory commission, a government authority created by statutes of the legislature such as:
- Constitutional Commission, a body reviewing or writing a constitution
- European Commission, the executive body of the European Union
- Presidential Commission (United States), a high level research group
- Royal Commission, a public inquiry
- Irish Land Commission, a body designed to fix rents in Ireland
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a US body enforcing and regulating the securities industry
- Great Commission, a tenet of Christian theology given by Jesus to spread his teachings
- The Commission (mafia), the governing body of the mafia in the United States
- Commission (art), the purchase of the creation of a piece of art most often on behalf of another
- Commissioned (gospel group)
Commission may also be used for:
- Letters patent, an open letter issued by a government granting an office or other status to someone or some entity
- A type of government agency that operates under the authority of a board of commissioners, though the term may also be applied to non-governmental groups such as the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
- A type of contract for performance or creation of a specific work
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