commissionaire

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛː/    美 /kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc.
  2. A uniformed doorman. UK
    — When the day came Nick turned up early at the bank and waited under a palm tree in the atrium. People hurried in, nodding to the commissionaire, who still wore a tailcoat and a top hat.
  3. An undisclosed agent under European civil law.

词形变化

commissionaires plural commissionnaire alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
commissionairess

词源

Borrowed from French commissionaire, from Latin commissio. Doublet of commissioner.
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