CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
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Terms in this context
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commission in CommonParlance
- definition a special group delegated to consider some matter
- definition a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)
- definition the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
- definition the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
- definition a group of representatives or delegates
- definition a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- definition an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- definition the act of committing a crime
- definition a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- definition put into commission; equip for service; of ships
- definition place an order for
- definition charge with a task
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commission plan in CommonParlance
- definition a municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission
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commissionaire in CommonParlance
- definition a uniformed doorman
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commissioned in CommonParlance
- definition (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above
- definition given official approval to act
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commissioned military officer in CommonParlance
- definition a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps
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commissioned naval officer in CommonParlance
- definition a commissioned officer in the navy
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commissioned officer in CommonParlance
- definition a military officer holding a commission
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commissioner in CommonParlance
- definition a government administrator
- definition a member of a commission
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commissioning in CommonParlance
- definition the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
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commissure in CommonParlance
- definition a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord
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commit in CommonParlance
- definition perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- definition make a set of changes permanent
- definition give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- definition cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- definition confer a trust upon
- definition make an investment
- definition engage in or perform
- definition transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved
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commit suicide in CommonParlance
- definition kill oneself
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commitment in CommonParlance
- definition the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
- definition the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
- definition an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
- definition a message that makes a pledge
- definition the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
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committal in CommonParlance
- definition the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- definition the act of committing a crime
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committal service in CommonParlance
- definition service committing a body to the grave
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committal to memory in CommonParlance
- definition learning so as to be able to remember verbatim
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committal to writing in CommonParlance
- definition the activity of putting something in written form
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committed in CommonParlance
- definition bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude
- definition associated in an exclusive sexual relationship
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committedness in CommonParlance
- definition the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
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committee in CommonParlance
- definition a special group delegated to consider some matter
- definition a self-constituted organization to promote something
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committee meeting in CommonParlance
- definition a meeting for administrative purposes
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committee member in CommonParlance
- definition a member of a committee
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committeeman in CommonParlance
- definition a man who is a member of committee
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committeewoman in CommonParlance
- definition a woman who is a member of a committee
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commix in CommonParlance
- definition to bring or combine together or with something else