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Meaning of "commissionaire" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COMMISSIONAIRE

From French, from commission.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COMMISSIONAIRE

commissionaire  [kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMISSIONAIRE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Commissionaire is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMMISSIONAIRE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Commissionaire

In mainland Europe, a commissionaire is an attendant, messenger or subordinate employed in hotels, whose chief duty is to attend at railway stations, secure customers, take charge of their luggage, carry out the necessary formalities with respect to it and have it sent on to the hotel. They are also employed in Paris as street messengers, light porters, etc. In the UK and some former Commonwealth countries, a commissionaire is a doorman. Under commercial and tax law in civil law jurisdictions, a commissionaire arrangement is a variation on agency, under which the principal is not bound to the customer by actions of the commissionaire.

Definition of commissionaire in the English dictionary

The definition of commissionaire in the dictionary is a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMMISSIONAIRE


billionaire
ˌbɪljəˈnɛə
concessionaire
kənˌsɛʃəˈnɛə
debonair
ˌdɛbəˈnɛə
debonnaire
ˌdɛbəˈnɛə
doctrinaire
ˌdɒktrɪˈnɛə
extraordinaire
ɛksˌtrɔːdɪˈnɛə
legionnaire
ˌliːdʒəˈnɛə
luminaire
ˌluːmɪˈnɛə
millionaire
ˌmɪljəˈnɛə
millionnaire
ˌmɪljəˈnɛə
multimillionaire
ˌmʌltɪˌmɪljəˈnɛə
nondoctrinaire
ˌnɒnˌdɒktrɪˈnɛə
ordinaire
ˌɔːdɪˈnɛə
questionnaire
ˌkwɛstʃəˈnɛə
trillionaire
ˌtrɪljəˈnɛə
undoctrinaire
ˌʌnˌdɒktrɪˈnɛə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMMISSIONAIRE

commissaries
commissary
commissaryship
commission
commission agent
commission fee
Commission for Racial Equality
commission of inquiry
Commission of the European Communities
commission plan
commissional
commissionary
commissioned officer
commissioner
Commissioner for Local Administration
commissioner for oaths
commissioner of education
Commissioner of Official Languages
commissionership
commissioning editor

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMMISSIONAIRE

affaire
Apollinaire
au contraire
Baudelaire
Bonaire
commissaire
communautaire
concessionnaire
debonaire
fonctionnaire
gazillionaire
maire
mousquetaire
notaire
savoir-faire
solitaire
vin ordinaire
Voltaire
zaire
zillionaire

Synonyms and antonyms of commissionaire in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «commissionaire» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMMISSIONAIRE

Find out the translation of commissionaire to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of commissionaire from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «commissionaire» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

门警
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

commissionaire
570 millions of speakers

English

commissionaire
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दरबान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حاجب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Комиссионер
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

commissionaire
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দরোয়ান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

commissionnaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pesuruhjaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kommissionär
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

守衛
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

commissionaire
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Komisi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người gác dan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பலதரப்பட்ட சிறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कमिशनर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kapıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

commissionaire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zleceniobiorcę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

комісіонер
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

comisionar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Κομισάριος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

portier
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

commissionaire
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

commissionaire
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of commissionaire

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMISSIONAIRE»

The term «commissionaire» is normally little used and occupies the 121.126 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMISSIONAIRE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «commissionaire» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «commissionaire» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about commissionaire

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMISSIONAIRE»

Discover the use of commissionaire in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to commissionaire and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shared Services in Finance and Accounting
COMMISSIONAIRE. STRUCTURE. AND. TAX-RELATED. BENEFITS. AND. RISKS. Tax is relevant to every company and any project on the type of SSO will have to deal with tax issues. In an SSO project there are a load of tax issues, ...
Tom Olavi Bangemann, 2005
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The New US-Belgium Double Tax Treaty: A Belgian and EU ...
In the recent Zimmer case the Court of Appeals of Paris has given a very broad interpretation to the terms "in the name of that enterprise" in deciding that a French commissionaire constitutes a permanent establishment for its UK principal.
Anne Van de Vijver, 2009
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The Commissionaires: An Organization with a Proud History
There is no record of a driver ever complimenting a Commissionaire for getting a ticket but the excuses offered are legendary. One of the excuses often used in the past was "I was held up in the doctor's office." Apparently, at one time, if it could ...
John Gardam, 1998
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Transfer Pricing and Business Restructurings: Streamlining ...
The commissionaire is sheltered from any significant risks by the principal. The primary risk that a commissionaire bears in theory is that marketing expenditure will be borne with no corresponding sale (i.e. market risk).27 Commissionaires ...
Anuschka Bakker, 2009
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Multimodal Transport Law: The Law Applicable to the ...
regardare whether theyhave traded before –maybe even ona regular basis– and if so, what functions they performed.120 2.2.4.2 The commissionaire de transport A 'commissionaire de transport' or 'a (transport) agent on commission' is a ...
Marian Hoeks, 2010
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Principles of International Taxation
the supplier firm before the commissionaire firm can enter into contracts with the customers. The main use of such commissionaire arrangements is in states with relatively high rates of tax. Usually the commissionaire firm would be a subsidiary  ...
Angharad Miller, Lynne Oats, 2012
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Hungary in International Tax Planning
In respect of commissionaire agreements, principals must recognize income and expenses in the same way as if they executed transactions themselves (without using an intermediary). Because the assets transferred are not recorded as part ...
Dániel Deák, 2003
8
Sèvres Porcelain: Makers and Marks of the Eighteenth Century
Richard (I), l'aîné, oncle 1768-75 manoeuvre 1775-76 couverte, pâte tendre 1776 -86 magasin, commissionaire 1790 magasin, commissionaire (Dzf) 1791 magasin (D:i) 1792 magasin, commissionaire (D:g) 1793 magasin, commissionaire ...
Carl Christian Dauterman, John Philip O'Neill, Rosanne Wasserman, 1986
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The Stories of Heinrich Böll
I enter my workroom, exchange my jacket for a gray smock, and immediately set to work. I open the mailbags which the commissionaire has already picked up earlier from the main post office, and I empty them into the two wooden bins which, ...
Heinrich Böll, 1986
10
Atkinson's Casket
Not perceiving exactly the force of his logic, I enquired, in turn, what was the business of a commissionaire? Having laid down his bat to enable him the better to flourish his hands, he delivered himself nearly in these words—-' Monsieur will  ...
Samuel Coate Atkinson, 1837

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMISSIONAIRE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term commissionaire is used in the context of the following news items.
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Edmonton police launch internal review after jailbreak leaves guard …
The Edmonton Police Service is launching an internal review after two men escaped custody Sunday night and left a police Commissionaire ... «MetroNews Canada, Jul 15»
2
Air Canada confirms bomb threat called into Saint John
David Allen, the chief executive officer of the Saint John Airport, confirmed a commissionaire with the airport authority received a threat about ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
3
Sherlock Holmes: examining the evidence – in charts
... the owner of the missing racehorse Silver Blaze; on the same chart, the "salt-of-the-earth policeman" is actually Peterson, a commissionaire. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
4
YEP Letters: June 17
... when they retire or leave domestic politics like Neil Kinnock who after only six years as an “EU commissionaire”, retired a multi millionaire . «Yorkshire Evening Post, Jun 15»
5
Romania did not obtain the prolongation of the deadline for the …
'The European commissionaire for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan explained that the legislative procedure would not allow the ... «ACTmedia, Jun 15»
6
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle may be adapted for Sherlock …
The carbuncle was later found in a goose's crop, which was handed by the commissionaire to Holmes along with a hat. Holmes believed that ... «Realty Today, Jun 15»
7
E&Y Says OECD Should Review Profit Attribution In Tax Plan
... so-called commissionaire arrangements where companies sell their products in foreign countries through individuals who hawk them in their ... «Law360, Jun 15»
8
Making of a mogul: The rise of media tycoon Richard Desmond
I pointed out that I had to be home by 11pm so Nanda arranged that the commissionaire would take me back to the fl at on his moped. Now ... «Express.co.uk, Jun 15»
9
Witness testimony recap from week one of police assault trial
Kelcher was working as a commissionaire at police holding cells when Halcro was brought in by Const. Mark Flynn following his arrest. Kelcher ... «Medicine Hat News, Jun 15»
10
Man accused of killing wife was calm during arrest, trial hears
DesRoches, a Canadian Forces veteran and former commissionaire, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of his ... «Times Colonist, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Commissionaire [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/commissionaire>. May 2024 ».
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