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means A commission is either a sum paid to someone as a percentage of the sales or deals they bring in, or a formal authorization (or group) charged with a specific task or duty.
from From Latin commissio, 'a joining together' or 'entrusting,' from committere — com- ('together') plus mittere ('to send'). That same mittere fuels a whole family of words about sending things out: mission, missile, dismiss. To commission someone was originally to entrust them with a task, to 'send them forth' with authority; the sense of a sales cut — money entrusted to you for the deal you completed — grew from that same root of duty handed over.
- Origin
- From Latin meaning entrusted task or duty
- Sales fuel
- Salespeople earning pure commission outperform salaried peers consistently
- Art world
- Renaissance masters painted on commission, not pure inspiration
- Royal Navy
- Officers held a literal physical commission document
- Out of order
- Same word means broken or appointed
european commission — executive branch of eu with 27 commissioners, one from each member state