Synonyms of commissioning

commissioning

verb

present participle of commission

1

as in appointing

to appoint as one's representative

plans to commission a deputy to investigate the matter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appointing
• delegating
• deputing
• deputizing
• assigning
• nominating
• charging
• designating
• naming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• abrogating
• abdicating

2

as in enabling

to give official or legal power to

was commissioned lieutenant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enabling
• authorizing
• empowering
• licensing
• qualifying
• permitting
• accrediting
• certifying
• investing
• chartering
• vesting
• allowing
• warranting
• approving
• entitling
• installing
• sanctioning
• endorsing
• validating
• confirming
• initiating
• affirming
• inaugurating
• credentialing
• inducting
• letting
• privileging
• instating
• OK'ing
• clearing
• enfranchising
• swearing in

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• preventing
• excluding
• disqualifying
• stopping
• denying
• blocking
• banning
• discouraging
• inhibiting
• obstructing
• hindering
• impeding
• prohibiting
• constraining
• holding back
• barring
• disallowing
• shutting out
• forbidding
• proscribing
• vetoing
• enjoining
• outlawing
• disbarring
• disenfranchising
• disfranchising
• interdicting

3

as in entrusting

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to

was commissioned to do the biography

Synonyms & Similar Words

• entrusting
• tasking
• trusting
• charging
• assigning
• imposing
• recommending
• conferring
• delegating
• authorizing
• committing
• empowering
• allocating
• confiding
• allotting
• investing
• consigning
• relegating
• reposing

4

as in nominating

to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty

commissioned him to head the office of veterans affairs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appointing
• nominating
• assigning
• naming
• constituting
• designating
• attaching
• placing
• detailing
• authorizing
• inducting
• delegating
• creating
• installing
• choosing
• electing
• selecting
• inaugurating
• ordaining
• instituting
• consecrating
• deputing
• anointing
• investing
• deputizing
• drafting
• crowning
• making
• instating
• enthroning
• singling (out)
• handpicking
• voting (in)
• throning
• destining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• firing
• dismissing
• discharging
• expelling
• removing
• overthrowing
• ejecting
• displacing
• ousting
• deposing
• throwing out
• evicting
• dethroning
• unseating
• unmaking
• uncrowning
• blackballing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of commissioning

Channel 4 is laying off around 340 staff, the net’s biggest round of cuts in its 40-year history, and this is hitting commissioning hard, with around 50% of roles set to be reduced. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026

In addition to the neo-frame asymmetric Eileen bag and its siblings, the boutique will host pieces from female artists Delouis is commissioning and a design curation through a partnership with Parisian Galerie Marcilhac. — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

Wells’s family, along with commissioning their own autopsy, hired their own forensic experts. — Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026

While Rice later went to great lengths to apologize to Cruise after seeing his performance, even commissioning a two-page spread in various outlets to heap praise on him, Jordan says the circumstances created an unwanted dynamic on set. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

Luckily, those inspired by some of its details can reach out to Rolls-Royce about commissioning a vehicle decorated using similar methods. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2026

But non-citizens are prohibited from commissioning as officers, meaning they are blocked from many of the military's most consequential roles. — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

Segal has also begun commissioning another six projects, including a Spanish-language true story set in Madrid and another Spanish story intended to shoot in English. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

On a construction site in Hainan Province, on the sub-tropical southern tip of China, a reactor barely the height of a four-story building has spent 2026 working through the final rites of commissioning that precede commercial nuclear power. — Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026