noun

an instruction, command, or role given to a person or group.

one of his first commissions was to redesign the Great Exhibition building

task,employment,job,work,piece of work,project,mission,assignment,undertaking,exercise,enterprise,endeavour,solution,duty,charge,responsibility,burden,office

verb

order or authorize the production of (something).

the portrait was commissioned by his widow in 1792

order,put in an order for,place an order for,contract for,pay for,authorize,bespeak