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commission
Noun
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A commission is a group of people who work together to research or manage something for a government.
She was recently appointed to head the European commission on climate change.
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A commission is money that a salesperson receives for each sale.
You may have to pay commission to convert the dollars into local currency on your travels.
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The official appointment of an officer in a nation's armed forces.
Brummell resigned his commission when his regiment was posted to Manchester.
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A commission is a task to be undertaken.
My commission was only to deliver this message.
commission
Verb
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If you commission someone to do or create something, you formally ask them to do it.
The report commissioned by the Department of Health in 1989, contains guidelines on how best to manage and organise waiting lists.
for
Preposition
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shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function
This cake is for you.
This is a net for catching fish.
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For is used to show the reason for something
He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.
for
Subordinator
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For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive
It's not good for you to be too relaxed.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
conservation
Noun
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Conservation is the act of preventing the wasteful use of resources
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
Antarctic
Proper noun
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The Antarctic, is the area around the south pole.
marine
Adjective
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If something is marine, it is of the sea or it relates to the sea.
Marine biology is the study of animals that live in the sea.
marine
Noun
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A marine is someone who is a member of the marine corps.
This man is a marine.
living
Verb
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A living thing is a person, animal or plant that is not dead—it is still able to function and grow.
Living things grow and make more living things like themselves.
living
Noun
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A way of earning money.
What do you do for a living?
resource
Noun
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A resource is something that is available and useful.
We don't have enough time and resources to finish the job.
Canada has fewer natural resources, including trees, fish, and oil, than it did in the past.