commissioner : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a commissioner appointed to supervise banks; a state superintendent of banks
  

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• an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed. U. S.

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• . See Commissioner.
• 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.

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• a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church.

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• noun a senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank
  

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• noun a commissioner in charge of public housing
  

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• noun a commissioner in charge of public parks
  

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• noun a civil commissioner appointed to supervise the duties and discipline of the police
  

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• a civil officer, usually one of a board, commissioned to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of the police.

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• noun the representative of Puerto Rico in the United States House of Representatives
  

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• one of a board of officers appointed by the government for arranging propositions for commuting, or compounding for, tithes. Eng. Simmonds.

Webster 1913