Commission vs Procure - What's the difference?
commission | procure |
A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
* Shakespeare
The thing to be done as agent for another.
A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
* Prescott
A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
* South
To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
* 2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited,
To place an order for (often piece of art); as, commission a portrait.
To put into active service; as, commission a ship.
To acquire or obtain.
* Milton
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To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
(criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
(obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
* Shakespeare
In transitive terms the difference between commission and procure
is that commission is to put into active service; as, commission a ship while procure is to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.As a noun commission
is a sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).commission
English
(wikipedia commission)Noun
(en noun)- It was James Bond's commission to defeat the bad guys.
- David received his commission after graduating from West Point.
- Let him see our commission .
- I have three commissions for the city.
- the European Commission; the Electoral Commission; the Federal Communications Commission
- The company's sexual harassment commission made sure that every employee completed the on-line course.
- A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.
- a reseller's commission
- The real-estate broker charged a four percent commission for their knowledge on bidding for commercial properties; for their intellectual perspective on making a formal offer and the strategy to obtain a mutually satisfying deal with the seller in favour of the buyer .
- the commission , preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism
- Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.
Synonyms
* body of officials: committee, government body * fee charged: brokerageDerived terms
* commissioner * European Commission * out of commissionVerb
(en verb)- James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents.
London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
- Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Aghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
- He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months.
- The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII.
procure
English
Verb
(procur)- if we procure not to ourselves more woe
- Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured , no one was able to imagine.
- By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.
- Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
- The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.
- What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?