COMMISSIONED Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

commissioned

verb

Definition of commissioned

past tense of commission

as in appointed

to appoint as one's representative plans to commission a deputy to investigate the matter

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as in enabled

to give official or legal power to was commissioned lieutenant

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as in entrusted

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to was commissioned to do the biography

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as in nominated

to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty commissioned him to head the office of veterans affairs

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Recent Examples of commissioned In 2025, TikTok helped generate $12 billion in advertising and merchandise sales for those businesses and supported 52,000 jobs in the state, said the PF Global report, which was commissioned by TikTok. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 An outside investigation commissioned by the board earlier this year found no evidence of improper conduct by Hill. — Nora O’Neill 1, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026 So even while Veach still was Reid’s personal assistant, Reid commissioned him to rate the top receivers for the 2008 NFL Draft — a position of need for the Eagles. — Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026 The Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia -- Estonian authorities said Tuesday that an arson attack carried out last month on a defense company that provides military vehicles to Ukraine was an act of sabotage commissioned by Russian security services. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026 The event will mark the first Navy ship commissioning held in Alaska since the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23) was commissioned in Anchorage on May 4, 2013. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026 One notable study that Congress commissioned in 2010 found positive effects for Head Start participants in cognitive, social-emotional and health outcomes, though few of these impacts lasted through the end of first grade. — Alexander Thim, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026 Last year, an Oxford Economics study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association revealed that the Brazilian audiovisual industry generated over 58% more jobs than the automotive industry, generating over 600,000 direct and indirect jobs. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026 There were prints by Cindy Sherman and Diane Arbus on the walls, as well as a Tim Sheaffer illustration of him that Graydon had commissioned for Wayne’s 80th birthday. — Mike Hogan, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for commissioned

Verb

The board currently consists of five representatives from Friends of the Underline and four members appointed by Miami-Dade County.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
Bolsonaro supporters have since portrayed Moraes as an ally of Lula, although he was not appointed by Lula and does not belong to his party.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

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The company is working on a Siri AI-enabled smart home hub that comes with a six-inch display that users can mount to their wall or place on a table, Bloomberg has reported.

— Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
Consider Inside Membership a slick, Uber-like alternative to traditional PR agencies, streamlining the process of bookings, content creation and measurement of ROI, since it’s all enabled by proprietary technology.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of enabled

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Never Enough, the group’s fourth album following 2021’s Glow On, won Best Rock Album at the same awards show, in which the band was the first to be nominated simultaneously in the Rock, Alternative and Metal categories.

— William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2026
The 2024 movie Conclave, which had been nominated for Best Picture at the recent Academy Awards, also drove up interest in the proceedings.

— Scott Detrow, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of nominated

Verb

Something may need to be postponed, delegated, or simplified.

— Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 4 Oct. 2026
As regulatory scrutiny increases, supply chain accountability offers leadership a competitive advantage if it’s viewed through a different lens than something that can be delegated or assumed.

— Ed Ryan, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of delegated

Verb

That's according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly and cautioned the plans could shift.

— NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
As synthetic media and autonomous systems proliferate, organizations will need to verify identity, prove content provenance and determine whether AI agents are authorized to act.

— Amit Sinha, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of authorized

Verb

This constituted an 85% year-over-year increase in economic impact compared to the 2025 show.

— Paul Grein, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, in England and the United States and across continental Europe, statutes that punished idleness sharpened into vagrancy laws that gave police discretionary power to identify when a form of nonaction constituted criminal disorder.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026