commissionship love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The holding of a commission; a commissionership.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The office of commissioner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The role or office of commissioner.

Etymologies

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commission +‎ -ship

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Examples

  • The _net_ amount of the SALE of this unparalleled mass of books is said to have been £55,000: a large sum, when the deductions from commissionship and the government-tax be taken into consideration. [

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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