commissioner
530
5.1
- noun
- /kəˈmɪʃənər/
- Formal
- The sports commissioner announced new regulations for fair play in the league.
- commissioner's office
- board of commissioners
- information commissioner
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- Richie Shearer, the OEM guy and the Fire Commissioner.
- I was like, no, Sir, I'm, I'm the, I'm the health commissioner.
- Even when he plays Commissioner Gordon in the Batman franchise, he he was Commissioner Gordon.
- He's the Assistant Secretary General to the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- The White House has an FCC, you know that it runs the FCC or appoints the FCC commissioner who has also made.
- Adam Silver is, in my lifetime, of any league, he is the most impressive commissioner I have ever seen.
- He got a fellow called John Yates who was the assistant Commissioner of Police on the anti terrorist unit.
- And the the commissioner of buildings at the time met with him.
Examples
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The Information Commissioner also has the power to serve a monetary penalty notice on a data controller.
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The Police Commissioner is right here.
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Prince Harry was a commissioner of this group.
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The mayor and the commissioner... get the commissioner on the phone!
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The Information Commissioner has been notified.
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People trusted the health commissioner and the mayor.
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But I'm acting under orders of the police commissioner.
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Recent audits by the Commissioner show that despite numerous recommendations, the Canadian federal approach hasn't substantially changed.
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After the snow-removal failure, Bloomberg insisted that John Doherty was "the best sanitation commissioner the city has ever had."
Academic text (2011) -
The health commissioner issued new guidelines to improve public safety.
Synonyms
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3.7
A person who works for a government or organization and has power to make and enforce rules
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1.9
A person who leads a group or community
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4.1
A senior government official who leads a major department
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3.0
A person who manages resources and spending in an organization
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3.0
A senior government official who leads a department
473
2.1
A person chosen to hold a responsible position in a company, club, or government
160
6.0
A person who manages an organization or its department, often in police and schools
145
4.6
An official or organization that makes sure companies follow rules
135
3.2
A person elected or appointed to carry out government work
29
4.5
A senior person who manages a government department
26
3.0
A person who leads a department in a company or school
16
8.0
A senior official in government or the police who leads a region
8
3.7
A person in the government who leads a department and makes rules about it
5
9.2
Person who leads a sports league or organization
1
4.4
A person who holds an official government job that is not military
1
4.4
A person who manages office work and makes official decisions in a government or large organization
Antonyms
Compounds
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8.8
An elected representative from Puerto Rico in the US House who cannot vote
How Senior
- Formal
530
5.1
867
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
commissioner = commission (semi-transparent) = commission + er
The word is formed regularly from 'commission' + '-er', but the modern office title is somewhat specialized and not fully predictable from the base alone.
Etymology
Commissioner comes from commission, which is made from com- 'together' and mittere 'to send', the same root as mission. So a commissioner is literally someone 'sent' or given a task, which explains why the word now means an official put in charge of a department or area.