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commissioner
/kəˈmɪ.ʃə.nəɹ/
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What does commissioner mean?
noun
- One who commissions something.
- One commissioned to perform certain duties.
- A member of a commission.
More meanings (2)
noun
- An official in charge of a government department, especially a police force.
- Alternative form of European Commissioner.
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IPA pronunciation
/kəˈmɪ.ʃə.nəɹ/
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A commissioner, appointed by the President and Senate, was to control the Bureau, with an office force not exceeding ten clerks.
In both of these trials the Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau was officially exonerated from any wilful misdoing, and his work commended.
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He was a present to the missionary from the English commissioner of customs at Tamsui, when that gentleman was leaving the island.
The story is thoroughly authenticated, and has been told to me by the Commissioner of the district exactly as I have described it.
Through Barnum's efforts a law was passed that no person in the employ of any railroad in the State, should serve as railroad commissioner.