Commission
Commission verb - To pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty.
Usage example: commissioned him to head the office of veterans affairs
Vote and commission are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vote" instead a verb "Commission".
Vote
Vote verb - To set before the mind for consideration.
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Synonyms for Vote
Commission and vote are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Commission" instead a verb "Vote".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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The youngest Union general, Galusha Pennypacker, was seventeen in 1861, and twenty years old when promoted to Brigadier, too young to vote for the President who granted him the commission.
- Tyreen is an Irish immigrant who killed a fellow cavalryman in a duel and lost his commission (with Dundee casting the last vote in his court martial) and wound up serving the South.
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The merger was opposed by the Justice Department in 1985 and denied in a 41 vote by the Interstate Commerce Commission on July 24, 1986, who ruled that such a merger included too many duplicate routes and was therefore monopolistic over west coast freight rail service.
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