commission plan
- noun
- /kəˈmɪʃən plæn/
- Formal
:
plan de comisión
- The city adopted the commission plan to improve the efficiency of its administration.
Examples
-
The city adopted a new commission plan last year.
-
Under the commission plan, each commissioner oversees a different department, such as public safety or finance.
-
Many American cities experimented with the commission plan in the early twentieth century.
-
Is the commission plan effective for local governance?
-
The city adopted a commission plan to improve local governance by assigning specific departments to each member.
-
Under the commission plan, the mayor and council members work closely to manage public services more efficiently.
-
Voters approved the commission plan, believing it would lead to better accountability in municipal leadership.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Knowing 'commission' (a committee) and 'plan' (an ordered set of actions) allows a learner to infer a general idea of a plan related to a commission, but the specific institutional meaning — a particular form of municipal government where powers are vested in a small commission — is specialized and not fully predictable. A B1 learner might interpret it simply as a plan created by a commission rather than the technical governmental system, so the transparency is partial.
Etymology
Commission plan comes from the idea that a city is run by a small group of officials, each given a commission or 'job' to lead one city department, and the plan is how they are organized. So, it means 'a system of city government' where each member runs a different department.
