{
  "id": "commission.transaction",
  "term": "commission",
  "sense": "transaction",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "commission",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a request that someone be paid to perform a specific act",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "request.social",
      "pay.economic",
      "action.deed",
      "act.deed",
      "payment.economic",
      "someone.person",
      "specific.detail"
    ],
    "interaction": "the request and payment together initiate a binding expectation to perform a specific act",
    "novel_properties": [
      "requested performance",
      "compensated obligation",
      "defined scope"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Medici commissioned Michelangelo to sculpt David for 400 florins in 1501.",
      "domain": "art"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1889, the French government commissioned Gustave Eiffel to build the Eiffel Tower for 6.5 million francs.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The New York Times commissioned photographer W. Eugene Smith to document Albert Schweitzer’s clinic in 1954.",
      "domain": "media"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "order.arrangement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "commission",
    "commissioned",
    "commissioning",
    "commissions"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "definition updated to match factual usage; now correctly includes all constitutive components, especially 'act.deed' which distinguishes 'act' from general 'action'. Removed self-reference risk and gr"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-commission.transaction"
}