(n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
(n.) The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
(n.) The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
(n.) A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
(n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
(n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
(n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
(n.) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.
(n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
(v. t.) To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
(v. t.) To send out with a charge or commission.
Example Sentences:
(1) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) Using an explicit process, the Oregon Health Services Commission has completed the ranking of 714 condition-treatment pairs.
(4) Quoting the BBC-commissioned survey of more than 2,000 adults, Lyons said they had been given six choices what to do with the licence fee surplus once digital switchover was complete.
(5) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(6) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
(7) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
(8) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(9) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
(10) The European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and the EU council president, Herman Van Rompuy, were both right to brand it unacceptable.
(11) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(12) This is such an emotional thing in positive terms about the EU.” Marek Prawda, Poland’s former ambassador to the EU and now head of the European commission in Warsaw, says: “For us, being an EU member is the inverse of what was said in your referendum campaign about ‘taking back control’.
(13) The independent Low Pay Commission will advise on the path future increases should take, taking into account the state of the economy.
(14) A government-commissioned review into the RET, headed by the businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton, concluded that while it has largely achieved its aims and helped create jobs in clean energy, it should be either wound back or cut off entirely.
(15) The two moves were seen as significant because the Electoral Commission had made clear that secondary legislation, which must be passed before the referendum can be held, should be introduced six months before the referendum.
(16) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
(17) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
(18) The European commission has three official "procedural languages": German, French and English.
(19) Outside of human resources matters, they cover changes to services; reconfiguration of services; deciphering all the rules and regulations so that people can do their jobs; interpreting the complicated rules around commissioning care; commercial deals; inquests and dealing with families; and supporting clinical staff in making the right decision in the best interest of the patient.
(20) There, the US Joint Commission, an independent, non-profit organisation that accredits healthcare organisations and programmes has issued a standard on “behaviours that undermine a culture of safety” to tackle “intimidating and disruptive behaviour at work”.
Debug
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) China's giant telescope represents its big ambitions for science Read more Scientists would start debugging and trials of the telescope, said Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope.
(2) I'm hoping that the debugging code within the iOS core is partly to blame here, and once it reaches release the core's footprint will shrink and things will run as smoothly as iOS 4.
(3) 8-yr.-olds who learned Logo in school were found to use both debugging techniques and procedurality in their computer programming.
(4) Using the simulator in the development and debugging of control programs has several advantages over using the real pump: it provides detailed pump status information and it can stimulate various error and alarm conditions to comprehensively test the error recovery procedures of the control program.
(5) The assessment of growth changes was based on the method of superimposition described by Björk and Skieller (1983) supplemented by a new computerized debugging procedure.
(6) But it seems many parents will be surprised when their children come home from school talking about algorithms, debugging and Boolean logic.
(7) House has a PhD in electrical engineering and is an expert in user interfaces – now she's applying that skill with systems to a workforce, - she is effectively debugging the development team.
(8) In this paper we show a program written in BASIC and debugged on a Sharp MZ-700 personal computer, equipped with the Sharp MZ-1P01 plotter.
(9) Boys, but not girls, trained in Logo showed an improvement in debugging skills relative to the control children.
(10) Key Stage 2 (7-11 year-olds): Slightly older primary-school children will be creating and debugging more complicated programs with specific goals and getting to grips with concepts including variables and “sequence, selection, and repetition in programs”.
(11) They and a group of control children of the same age were pre- and posttested on a game requiring debugging skills (Mastermind) and another game requiring procedural skills (Tower of Hanoi).
(12) But they will also be creating and debugging simple programs of their own, developing logical reasoning skills and taking their first steps in using devices to “create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content”.
(13) Use of the preprocessor does not interfere with the capability to debug programs interactively which is one of the most helpful characteristics of interpretive implementations of BASIC.
(14) Two 2-D graphic display tools are developed to help the debugging of a given geometric model.
(15) The authors debugged and launched into routine operation an automated monitoring system using computer techniques.
(16) And it also turned out that Obama's advisers were so paranoid about Republican attacks that they refused to allow the beta testing essential to debug any high-traffic site.
(17) The common theme of the successful places I’d seen seemed to be a handful of hardy young entrepreneurs, the sort who can make their own clothes, granola and business plans at the same time as snowboarding the local mountains or debugging a laptop: the cool tycoons.
(18) Software development for the front-end is performed on the host with program down-load for interactive debugging.
(19) For ease in debugging and verifying adherence to the standard, all information in the file is encoded in printable ASCII characters.
(20) In addition, it has features which aid in debugging associated programs.