Commission

1. n. The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
2. n. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
3. n. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
4. n. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
5. n. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
6. n. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel’s commission.
7. n. A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
8. n. The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
9. n. The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.