Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Commissioning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Commission \Com*mis"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commissioned};
p. pr & vb. n. {Commissioning}.]
1. To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to
empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform
certain acts; to commission an officer.
2. To send out with a charge or commission.
A chosen band He first commissions to the Latian
land. --Dryden.
Syn: To appoint; depute; authorize; empower; delegate;
constitute; ordain.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
commissioning
n : the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
[syn: {commission}]
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