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Definition of 'commissioner'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) commissioner
a person commissioned to act officially; member of a commission.

2. commissioner
a government official or representative in charge of a department or district:
the police commissioner.

3. commissioner
an official chosen by an athletic association to exercise broad administrative or judicial authority:
the baseball commissioner.

Etymology: (1400–50; late ME < AF)

Definition of 'commissioner'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) commissioner
a government administrator

2. (noun) commissioner
a member of a commission

Definition of 'commissioner'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) commissioner
a person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims

2. (noun) commissioner
an officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service

Translation of 'commissioner'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a representative of the government in a district or department.
Afrikaans: kommissaris	Arabic: مَنْدوب، مُفَوَّض، عُضْو	Bulgarian: комисар
Brazilian: comissário	Czech: komisař	German: der/die Bevollmächtigte
Danish: kommisær	Greek: επίτροπος της κυβέρνησης	Spanish: comisario
Estonian: valitsuse erivolinik	Farsi: فرماندار	Finnish: viranhaltija
French: commissaire	Hebrew: נְצִיב	Hindi: आयुक्त, अधिकारी
Croatian: povjerenik	Hungarian: biztos	Indonesian: komisaris
Icelandic: umboðsmaður; landsstjóri	Italian: commissario	Japanese: 委員・長官
Korean: 행정장관	Lithuanian: įgaliotinis, komisaras	Latvian: pilnvarotais
Malay: pesuruhjaya	Dutch: commissaris	Norwegian: regjeringsrepresentant; k
Polish: komisarz, delegat	Persian: فرماندار	Pashto: مامور: دهيئت غړى
Portuguese: comissário	Romanian: împuternicit	Russian: уполномоченный представит
Slovak: komisár	Slovenian: pooblaščenec	Serbian: opunomoćenik
Swedish: ombud	Thai: สมาชิกกรรมาธิการ	Turkish: heyet/komisyonüyesi
Taiwanese: 地方政府或部門主管	Ukrainian: спеціальний уповноважений	Urdu: ضلعے یا محکمے میں حکومت ک
Vietnamese: ủy viên hội đồng	Chinese: 地方或部门长官
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