0 present participle of commission
1 to formally choose someone to do a special piece of work, or to formally ask for a special piece of work from someone:
2 to give someone the official authority to be an officer in the armed forces:
A set of stamps has been commissioned in commemoration of Independence Day.
They commissioned me to write a series of articles on language.
Commissioning services for the treatment and prevention of coronary heart disease.
The experience of commissioning and attending to these works has been a revealing one for me, their curator.
In turn, joint commissioning requires individual agencies both to jointly plan and jointly purchase services.
These were categorized into four areas: intellectual, financial/commissioning, service issues and other issues.
These were later categorized into four areas: intellectual, financial/commissioning, service issues and other issues.
