commissioner
noun
a person commissioned to act officially; member of a commission.
commissionership
-
a word derived from
commissioner.
Example Sentences
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Jukes said it was having "as big an impact as the pursuit of corrupt officers in Sir Robert Marks' commissionership".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
“The last 22 years of my commissionership, we had no lockout, no strike, no nothing,” Selig said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
Once, Goodell was Clint Eastwood, the new sheriff in town who was going to clean up the NFL after the laissez-faire commissionership of Paul Tagliabue.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
He later accomplished something no one else in the family ever had in 2014: he won the first political race he ever entered in securing Texas’ land commissionership.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2018
In 1897, on the transference of Sir Harry Johnston to Tunis, the commissionership was conferred on Mr Alfred Sharpe, who was created a K.C.M.G. in 1903.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
