(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”.
Omission
Definition:
(n.) The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.
(n.) That which is omitted or is left undone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Omission of K(+), Ca(++) or Mg(++) had no effect on uptake.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) I hope this two days off gives him the stimulus.” The omissions left a manager who cherishes control at risk of falling foul of the “law of Murphy” that he had already bemoaned this season.
(4) These changes were suppressed by omission of extracellular Ca2+.
(5) The omission of glucose induced a marked increase in the efflux of [3H]GABA, which was antagonized by TTX (1 microM), but not by MK 801 (1 microM) or DNQX (100 microM).
(6) The omission of Ca2+ from the superfusion medium or the addition of ouabain (5 X 10(-3) M), a (Na+ + K+) stimulated adenosine triphosphate (ATP) phosphohydrolase [(Na+ + K+)-ATPase] inhibitor, almost completely abolished the DN-1417- or TRH-induced DA releasing effect.
(7) In the presence of hexamethonium, or after omission of external calcium, the resting release fell by 50 and 55 per cent, respectively.
(8) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
(9) It might therefore appear an omission on the part of David Cameron if, at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, he fails to make his own contribution to the current redefining of the political debate.
(10) There were, though, large omissions and ambiguities that will need to be filled in and clarified as polling day nears.
(11) Upon omission of poly(U), the affinity of the P site is lowered by 2-4 orders of magnitude, depending on the ionic conditions, while A site binding is not detectable anymore.
(12) Here the meaninglessness of material not only favoured its omission but also often indicated important psychopathology.
(13) Release was abrogated by omission of myeloperoxidase or H2O2, heating of MPO, or addition of azide, cyanide, or catalase.
(14) Whereas addition of amiloride had a similar, but less pronounced effect, omission of Cl- resulted in moderate alkalinisation.
(15) Omission of extracellular Ca2+ abolished the effects of 10 nM TPA and partially inhibited those of 100 nM TPA on insulin release and 45Ca2+ efflux.
(16) The omission of the musculo-skeletal system examination, in contrast to the almost universal inclusion of other systems' examination, demands correction.
(17) The present studies were performed to determine if the omission of prefixation would provide a better method for localizing adenylate cyclase in cardiac muscle.
(18) It was on that occasion that then-opposition leader Tony Abbott said , “we have never fully made peace with the first Australians ... we need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forbears to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people”.
(19) Type of error depended upon which hemisphere received the problem, with the right hemisphere yielding more errors of commission and the left more errors of omission.
(20) Omission of sodium ions in the incubation medium reduced uptake of 3H-Ch by about 90 per cent at 1 microM Ch in the incubation medium and the proportion of 3H-ACh to 3H-Ch was only 10 to 20 per cent while the proportion of 3H-PhCh increased from insignificant amounts to between 20 to 30 per cent.