Commission
Commission verb - To appoint as one's representative.
Open and commission are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Open" instead a verb "Commission".
Open
Open verb - To change from a closed to an open position.
Commission and open are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Commission" instead a verb "Open".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In 1908, 15 years after Doubleday died, a commission whose open aim was to prove that baseball was strictly American in origin announced their findings that Doubleday was the inventor.
Source: Snowball Lie - Rhine Arcken from v3 of Open Blue was basically an Adventurer Archaeologist with a naval commission, which she only got in order to gain access to government funding for her expeditions.
Source: Ensign Newbie - Other times, artists have to shut down their messages or commissions due to obsessive trolls and drama that breaks out whenever they open commission slots and are immediately filled by people who apparently wait all day for journals like that and then snipe the journal.
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