Commissionnaire: Definition and part of speech

Commissionnaire

  1. n. One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
  2. n. An agent or factor; a commission merchant.

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.

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