COMMISSIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commissioner mean? 

• COMMISSIONER (noun)
  The noun COMMISSIONER has 2 senses:

1. a government administrator

2. a member of a commission

  Familiarity information: COMMISSIONER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMISSIONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A government administrator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("commissioner" is a kind of...):

administrator; executive (someone who manages a government agency or department)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commissioner"):

bank commissioner (a commissioner appointed to supervise banks; a state superintendent of banks)

housing commissioner (a commissioner in charge of public housing)

park commissioner (a commissioner in charge of public parks)

police commissioner (a civil commissioner appointed to supervise the duties and discipline of the police)

Derivation:

commission (the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions)

commission (a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something)

commission (charge with a task)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of a commission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("commissioner" is a kind of...):

fellow member; member (one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization))

Holonyms ("commissioner" is a member of...):

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)

Derivation:

commission (a special group delegated to consider some matter)

commission (a group of representatives or delegates)

 Context examples 

The Austrian partner asked for the price to be kept secret, but the commissioner stated the purchase was financed by a loan, so it is not a burden on the state budget.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

She felt that she had never seen so agreeable a man in her life; and was only astonished to find that, so great and so agreeable as he was, he should be come down to Portsmouth neither on a visit to the port-admiral, nor the commissioner, nor yet with the intention of going over to the island, nor of seeing the dockyard.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The November 4 issue of Magyar Nemzet published an interview with Gáspár Maróth, the Hungarian Government commissioner responsible for defence, defence industries and coordinating defence modernization, in which the deal was announced.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

I was able to do the commissioner a favor once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)