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Definition of commissioner

Commissioner
Commissioner Com*mis"sion*er, n. 1. A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. To another address which requested 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 subordinates 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. [U. S.] 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. [U. S.]

Meaning of commissioner from wikipedia

- a commissioner is, in principle, the title given to a member of a commission or to an individual who has been given a commission
- the commissioner of baseball is the chief executive of major league baseball and its associated minor leagues – a constellation of
- commissioner is a senior rank used in many police forces and may be rendered police commissioner or commissioner of police. the commissioner
- the commissioner of police of the metropolis is the head of london 's metropolitan police service , classing the holder as a chief police
- the commissioner can also issue sanctions up to and including a lifetime ban from the league if an individual connected to the nfl has bet
- the commission operates as a cabinet government , with 27 members of the commission (informally known as 'commissioners). there is one
- a european commissioner is a member of the 27-member european commission . each member within the college holds a specific portfolio and
- a county commission (also known as a board of county commissioners) is a group of elected officials charged with administering the county
- the commissioner of internal revenue (or irs commissioner) is the head of the internal revenue service (irs a bureau within the united
- cancelled after the suspension of the ottawa renegades franchise commissioner tom wright at that time had indicated that halifax was the
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