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A person charged with the management or direction of a board, a court, or a government agency. A commissioner has the power and responsibility to administer laws or rules that relate to a specific subject matter over which he or she has authority. Generally, he or she is appointed specially, as in the case of a commissioner of court. COMMISSIONER, officer. One who has a lawful commission to execute a public office. In a more restricted sense it is one who is authorized to execute. a particular duty, as, commissioner of the revenue, canal commissioner. The term when used in this latter sense is not applied, for example, to a judge. There are commissioners, too, who have no regular commissions and derive their author from the elections held by the people. County commissioners, in Pennsylvania, are officers of the latter kind. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Parks said Caruso told of advice he had been given as a 24-year-old commissioner under former Mayor Tom Bradley that ``to be a good commissioner that he should follow the directions and implement the intent of the mayor, and if he couldn't do those two things it was essential that he return his commissionership back to the mayor,'' Parks said. I subsequently held two principalships, nine superintendencies in five states, and an associate state commissionership, and served as a management representative for a multinational company--16 positions in 40 years, an average of 2. David Goldstein, president of the Tax Commission and one of the six commissioners have not been reappointed, and there is also another vacant commissionership, the City Comptroller's report notes. |
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