Usually means: Payment for facilitating a sale.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. commission: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. commission: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commission: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commission: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commission: Vocabulary.com
  6. Commission, commission, commission: Wordnik
  7. commission: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commission: Wiktionary
  9. commission: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commission: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commission: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. commission: Dictionary.com
  13. commission: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. commission: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Commission (art), Commission (disambiguation), Commission (document), Commission (government), Commission (remuneration), Commission, The Commission (album), The Commission (hip hop), The Commission (mafia), The Commission: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Commission: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. commission: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. commission: Rhymezone
  19. commission, commission (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. commission: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. commission: Free Dictionary
  22. commission: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. commission: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. commission: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Commission: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commission: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. commission: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. commission: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. COMMISSION: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Commission: bizterms.net
  12. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Commission: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  14. commission: Finance-Glossary.com
  15. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  16. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  17. Commission: Investopedia
  18. Commission: Securities Terminology
  19. commission: Legal dictionary
  20. commission: Financial dictionary
  21. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  22. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  23. Commission: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  24. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commission: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commission: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commission: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. commission: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Commission, The Commission: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  5. Commission: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
noun:  An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
noun:  The thing to be done as agent for another.
noun:  A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
noun:  A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
noun:  The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error).
verb:  (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
verb:  (transitive) To place an order for (often a piece of art).
verb:  (transitive, especially of a ship or boat) To put into active service.

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