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commissioner

[kuh-mish-uh-ner] / kəˈmɪʃ ə nər /
NOUN
agent
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Hopefully the Southern Section is keeping its options open, but it’s time for West, the commissioner since 2023, to get his credibility back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

In one county, for instance, an agricultural commissioner fined a farmer $2,000 for failing to provide safety training for workers who applied pesticides in fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

He worked some in the public sector, winning a seat as a county commissioner in Omaha in the late 1980s, and he chaired the state ethanol board.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Conservative Matthew Taylor, who stood against Sutton in the police and crime commissioner election in July, said it had been "a sorry saga".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

The commissioner of corrections has to approve all lockdowns, because they are stressful to inmates, essentially turning them all into keeplocks.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The Department of Pesticide Regulation in late 2025 unveiled searchable county and statewide data breakdowns for regulatory actions taken by agricultural commissioners from the start of 2020 through the end of June 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

In one instance, the report says, the two commissioners even wrote a letter complaining to the chief secretary, the top bureaucrat in the Indian government.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

MacPherson said county agricultural commissioners have discretion in deciding which enforcement tools — warning letters, written notices, fines — to use in a given situation, depending on the “nature and severity of the violation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

After filming Teasdale across five years, Mitchell shelved his documentary when commissioners lost interest.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Donelson, Feb. 16th Gen S. B. Buckner, Confed Army Sir: yours of this date proposing Armistice, and appointment of commissioners to settle terms of Capitulation is just received.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt




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