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# commissioner

«commissioner» in Mova's school dictionary: **an important official put in charge of a government…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a commissioner, commissioners; Commissioner as a title)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A commissioner is an important official put in charge of a government department, an organisation or an area of work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#m1)

2) In some police forces the commissioner is the head of the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#m2)

3) In sport a commissioner can be the official in charge of a whole league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In social studies and news, a commissioner leads things such as the police, a city's water or health service, or a children's rights office. In stories the police commissioner gives orders to detectives. Phrases: police commissioner, children's commissioner, county commissioner, the Commissioner of Police.

### examples

- The police commissioner spoke to reporters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#x1)
- The children's commissioner listens to the problems of young people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#x2)
- Our town has a commissioner for parks and roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#x3)
- The commissioner of the league announced the new rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#x4)
- In the comic, the commissioner called the hero for help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#x5)
- The commissioner visited our school to talk about safety. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#x6)
- His brother, the Commissioner of Taxes, had a dispute with the Minister and was disgraced. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/#x7)

### note

Countable: a commissioner, commissioners. Spelling: two m's and two s's: co-MM-i-SS-ion-er. Used with a capital letter as a title (Commissioner Gordon).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «commissioner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commissioner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.