- past tense form of commission.
- past participle of commission.
commissioned
Example Sentences
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A study commissioned by the Five Borough Jobs Campaign, a coalition of economic development groups that has received funding from Amazon, estimated that the Delivery Protection Act would increase household costs by $664 a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
For the last 19 years, student-loan lender Sallie Mae has commissioned a study on how families marshal all the economic forces at their disposal to pay for college.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Portsmouth City Council said it no longer commissioned services from Radis.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The new prototype was commissioned by the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, where it was recently installed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
He commissioned the construction of a fire boat, the Fire Queen, built specifically to negotiate the park’s shallow canals and to pass under its many low bridges.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
