mission
charge commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group, a confidential mission to London, his charge was deliver a message |
perpetration
commission committal | the act of committing a crime |
| commission commissioning | the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions |
commission
military commission | an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces |
| commission charge direction | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something, the judge's charge to the jury |
National Liberation Army
ELN
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC | a former executive agency (from to ) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC | an independent federal agency created in to license and regulate nuclear power plants |
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC | a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states, was terminated in , the ICC was established in as the first federal agency |
| Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
Federal Communications Commission
FCC | an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite |
| commission plan | a municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission |
Economic and Social Council commission
ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
| Commission on Human Rights | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights |
| Commission on Narcotic Drugs | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with drug traffic |
| Commission on the Status of Women | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies |
| Economic Commission for Africa | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of African nations |
| Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East |
| Economic Commission for Europe | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Europe |
| Economic Commission for Latin America | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Latin America |
| Population Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with population control |
| Social Development Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with social development |
| Statistical Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with statistical data from member nations |
blue ribbon commission
blue ribbon committee | an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue |
committee
commission | a special group delegated to consider some matter, a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours - Milton Berle |
| election commission | a commission delegated to supervise an election |
| fairness commission | a commission delegated to ensure opportunities for the expression of opposing views |
| planning commission | a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments |
Federal Trade Commission
FTC | an independent agency of the United States federal government that maintains fair and free competition, enforces federal antitrust laws, educates the public about identity theft |
deputation
commission delegation
delegacy
mission | a group of representatives or delegates |
| High Commission | an embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another |
| zoning commission | a commission delegated to supervise the zoning of areas for residential or commercial use |
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC | an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors |
| commission | a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary), he works on commission |
| commission | the state of being in good working order and ready for operation, put the ships into commission, the motor was out of commission |
| commission | charge with a task |
| commission | put into commission, equip for service, of ships |
| commission | place an order for |