noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
commissioner for oaths
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
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The assistant commissioner reported troubles with the farmers, but much more with the labourers.
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As assistant commissioner , Smith oversees marketing programs involving livestock, horticulture, fiber and international marketing.
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Ultimately, I made him an assistant commissioner .
high
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She says her dismissal followed the arrival of Peter Hughes, who became high commissioner in January 1998.
parliamentary
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One of the parliamentary commissioners who escorted the king to Holdenby, he was regarded as an enemy by the army council.
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Thereafter he continued to be an influential committee-man until he returned to Ireland as a parliamentary commissioner in June 1649.
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In 1967, a parliamentary commissioner was established to investigate complaints passed on by Members of Parliament about maladministration in government departments.
regional
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The eight regional commissioners will be paid £21,511 for a three-day week.
■ NOUN
county
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One pilot flew Dade County commissioners over the crash site, another pilot said.
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The county commissioners supply his budget, but can not fire him.
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Grand Forks County commissioners call a meeting and declare the county an emergency area, a first step in gaining disaster aid.
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Do you realize I could be making $ 524 an hour if I were a county commissioner ?
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He was the only Republican ever elected county commissioner of Chicago.
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Arthur Elrod, ward boss and county commissioner , begat Richard Elrod, sheriff.
environment
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Then, suddenly, the environment commissioner announces more consultation is needed and it s on hold until the autumn.
insurance
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But State insurance commissioner Roxani Gillespie imposed a six-month freeze on all car insurance rates on October 2.
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On Friday, the insurance commissioner also approved the deal, but only if Harvard met eight additional conditions.
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The insurance industry has all the power, not to mention our friend Chuck Quackenbush as state insurance commissioner .
police
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He questioned whether the courts could give orders to Mr Mugabe and the police commissioner , Augustine Chihuri.
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Hauser is also the grandson of former police commissioner Stanley Sheinbaum.
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The national police commissioner , George Fivaz, this week said that undercover agents would be sent in.
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He lunched with the police commissioner at a fish restaurant in Torch Bay.
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On Oct. 19 a police commissioner and his wife and son were shot dead.
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The Katsina police commissioner was later quoted as saying that there had been no deaths, contrary to media reports.
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Or that they are to be judges, or police commissioners , or toilet attendants.
trade
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Future trade agreements will be negotiated not by the member states, but principally by the trade commissioner , Pascal Lamy.
■ VERB
appoint
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In 1653 he was appointed one of the commissioners for propagating the gospel in northern counties.
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Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner .
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Rather than intervening directly, the Home Office appointed an independent commissioner , whose report vindicated Dyer's accusations.
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Mr Prager has been appointed one of the commissioners to the Paris Exposition.
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In 1694 he was appointed a customs commissioner , a post he held until 1701 and again from 1714 onward.
become
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She says her dismissal followed the arrival of Peter Hughes, who became high commissioner in January 1998.
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He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner .
elect
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An elected health commissioner would run the system with an appointed medical advisory board and regional directors.
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He was the only Republican ever elected county commissioner of Chicago.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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County commissioners face urgent issues that are more deserving of government time and money.
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During the spring of 843, the commissioners did their job of surveying the royal resources in Francia.
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In Mike Straus, he had a commissioner who would stoke the engine until the rivets began to pop.
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Its five commissioners are now down to three.
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Rick Perry, the Texas commissioner of agriculture, is a rancher with an aversion to hyperbole.
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Tensions flared in the long-running Senate Whitewater hearings Thursday as a former Arkansas securities commissioner testified that she warned then-Gov.
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The tax commissioners rejected such claim: the revenue did not appeal.
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We have a Negro vehicle commissioner .