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commission
noun [C or U] (PAYMENT) /kəˈmɪʃ.ən/Definition
› a payment to someone who sells goods that is directly related to the amount of goods sold, or a system that uses such payments: Is she paid a regular wage or is it on/by commission only? She gets a 15 percent commission on every machine she sells.Earning money and money earnedForms of money and methods of payment
(Definition of commission noun (PAYMENT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- bank verb (MONEY)
- danger money noun
- draw verb (MONEY)
- earn verb
- earnings noun
- easy money noun
- feather your own nest idiom
- fundraising noun
- hourly adjective
- OTE noun
- paved with gold idiom
- pocket money noun (CHILD'S MONEY)
- professionally adverb
- remuneration noun
- scrape a living idiom
- stipend noun
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