Commission

Commission or commissioning may refer to:

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: commission and commissioning.

Business and contracting
  • Commission (remuneration), a form of payment to an agent for services rendered
    • Commission (art), the purchase or the creation of a piece of art most often on behalf of another
  • A contract for performance or creation of a specific work
  • Commissioning, a process or service provided to validate the completeness and accuracy of a project or venture:
    • Building commissioning, a quality assurance process during and following building construction
    • Project commissioning, a process of assuring that all components of a facility are designed, installed, tested, operated, and maintained according to the requirements of the owner or client

Government

Civil
  • A government agency, regulatory agency or statutory authority which operates under the authority of a board of commissioners, including:
    • Independent agencies of the United States government
  • An executive branch of government, often with characteristics of other branches of government:
    • Town commissioners, elected local government bodies established in urban areas in Ireland in the 19th century
    • City Commission, a form of local government (common in the United States)
    • The European Commission, a body incorporating features of an executive branch of government and a civil service
  • Presidential Commission (United States), a type of high level research group
  • Royal Commission, a form of public inquiry
  • Commissioning, the process of identifying an area's need for public services and then designing and securing the services to meet the need
    • Clinical commissioning groups, 135 NHS organisations in England responsible for commissioning healthcare
    • Commissioning support units, which provide regional support for Clinical commissioning groups

Military
  • Commission (document), a document given to commissioned officers
    • Commissioned officer, who derives authority directly from a sovereign power; contrast with warrant officer and non-commissioned officer
    • Purchase of commissions in the British Army
  • Ship commissioning, placing a warship in active military duty

Other uses
  • Great Commission, a tenet of Christian theology given by Jesus to spread his teachings
  • The Commission (American Mafia), the governing body of the mafia in the United States
  • Commissioned (gospel group)
  • Commission of a crime, in law
  • All pages with titles containing Commission
  • Commissioner
  • Decommission (disambiguation)
  • The Commission (disambiguation)
  • Letters patent, an open letter issued by a government granting an office or other status to someone or some entity
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.