COMMISSIONING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of granting authority to undertake certain functions

Synonyms:

commission; commissioning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("commissioning" is a kind of...):

authorisation; authorization; empowerment (the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commissioning"):

mandate (the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory)

Derivation:

commission (charge with a task)

-ing form of the verb commission