commission
/kəˈmɪʃ·ən/ n [C] (GROUP)Definition
› a group of people who have been formally chosen and given the authority to get information about a problem or to perform other special duties: Congress appointed a commission to study immigration policy.
(Definition of commission n (GROUP) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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