Plenipotentiary vs Commissioner - What's the difference?
plenipotentiary | commissioner |
A person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter
Invested with full power.
Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent
A member of a commission.
Someone commissioned to perform certain duties.
An official in charge of a government department, especially a police force.
Someone who commissions something
As nouns the difference between plenipotentiary and commissioner
is that plenipotentiary is a person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter while commissioner is a member of a commission.As an adjective plenipotentiary
is invested with full power.plenipotentiary
English
(wikipedia plenipotentiary)Noun
(plenipotentiaries)- 1985': Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah '''plenipotentiary . — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked