commission staff

collocation in English

meaningsofcommissionandstaff

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commission
noun
uk
/kəˈmɪʃ.ən/
us
/kəˈmɪʃ.ən/
a group of people who have been formally chosen to discover information about a problem or examine the reasons why the ...
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staff
noun
uk
/stɑːf/
us
/stæf/
the group of people who work for ...
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(Definition ofcommissionandstafffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommission staff

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Up to 39commissionstaffwere involved at any one time.
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Qualitative aspects will be monitored bycommissionstaffin the course of field visits.
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The object is that thecommissionstaffshall eventually be its own.
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Timely intervention by highcommissionstaffhas, on occasions, been sufficient to resolve the difficulties.
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It asks the highcommissionstaffto request birth and marriage certificates, and proof of residence and land ownership.
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It is difficult for the lawcommissionstaffwho produce many reports but not much legislation results.
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There is no certainty and no concern why thecommissionstaffshould be affected if the woodlands passed into private hands.
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All programmes under the scheme are assessed bycommissionstaffat least four times a year and more frequently where monitoring shows this to be necessary.
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Commissionstaffbelieves there is sufficient evidence that the false statements made to the commission were deliberately false.
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Even more importantly, any investigators who were contracted in, or anycommissionstaffappointed to investigate in the way apparently envisaged, would need to be able to exercise police powers.
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