Word Meanings - COMMISSIONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some bussiness, for the goverment, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. To another adress which requisted

Additional info about word: COMMISSIONER

1. A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some bussiness, for the goverment, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. To another adress which requisted that a commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the commissioners. Macaulay. 2. An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service. Herbert was first commissioner of the Admiralty. Macaulay. The commissioner of patents, the commissioner of the land office, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subotdinates of the secretary of the interior. Bartlett. Commissioner of deeds, an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed. -- County commissioners, certain administrative officers in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMISSIONER)

• Deputy
• Vicegerent
• lieutenant
• representative
• agent
• commissioner
• legate
• envoy
• delegate
• proxy
• substitute
• Proxy
• Agency
• substitution
• representation
• deputy
• Representative
• Agent
• embodiment
• personation
• vicar
• vicegerent
• principal
• sovereign
• Constituency

Related words: (words related to COMMISSIONER)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• EMBODIMENT
  1. The act of embodying; the state of being embodied. 2. That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true
• VICARIAN
  A vicar. Marston.
• LEGATESHIP
  The office of a legate.
• LEGATE
  commission or charge, to depute, fr. lex, legis, law: cf. F. légat, 1. An ambassador or envoy. 2. An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See. Note: Legates are of three kinds: Legates a latere, now
• VICARIOUS
  Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation. (more info) turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin
• LEGATEE
  One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
• SUBSTITUTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted. -- Sub`sti*tu"tion*al*ly, adv.
• CONSTITUENCY
  A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• SUBSTITUTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.
• LIEUTENANT
  of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
• VICARIATE
  Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious. Barrow.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• SUBSTITUTE
  One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
• VICARY
  A vicar.
• DELEGATE
  delegate; de- + legare to send with a commission, to depute. See 1. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. One elected by the people of a territory to
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL
  . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
• UNVICAR
  To deprive of the position or office a vicar. Strype.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• DISEMBODIMENT
  The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.
• SUBDELEGATE
  A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• ABLEGATE
  To send abroad. Bailey.
• IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
  The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
• INTERAGENCY
  Intermediate agency.