commissioner
noun
com·mis·sion·er
kə-ˈmi-sh(ə-)nər 
: a person with a commission: such as
a
: a member of a commission
b
: the representative of the governmental authority in a district, province, or other unit often having both judicial and administrative powers
c
: the officer in charge of a department or bureau of the public service
d
: the administrative head of a professional sport
Examples of commissioner in a Sentence
The baseball commissioner decided to suspend the players for 10 games.
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The administration has also cast doubt on the accuracy of the government’s monthly jobs report and fired the commissioner in charge of it last month.
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Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
Three months later, with the rubble still smoldering, Mayor-elect Mike Bloomberg called to ask me to become health commissioner.
—Tom Frieden, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
But the commissioners appointed to oversee the Coliseum on behalf of the city and county appeared to lean away from that option during Friday’s discussion.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
West Park doesn’t have its own police department and pays BSO for police services, but commissioners have been irked by increases in cost to the police agency by millions of dollars over the last few years.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
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Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
Three months later, with the rubble still smoldering, Mayor-elect Mike Bloomberg called to ask me to become health commissioner.
—Tom Frieden, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
But the commissioners appointed to oversee the Coliseum on behalf of the city and county appeared to lean away from that option during Friday’s discussion.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
West Park doesn’t have its own police department and pays BSO for police services, but commissioners have been irked by increases in cost to the police agency by millions of dollars over the last few years.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
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“Commissioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commissioner. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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commissioner
noun
com·mis·sion·er
kə-ˈmish-(ə-)nər
1
: a member of a commission
2
: an official in charge of a government department
Police Commissioner
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