# commission (transaction)

a request that someone be paid to perform a specific act

- Computed level: L18 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: commission

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [request](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-request.social), [pay](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pay.economic), [action](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-action.deed), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [payment](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-payment.economic), [someone](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-someone.person), [specific](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-specific.detail)

**Through:** the request and payment together initiate a binding expectation to perform a specific act

**Novel properties:**
- requested performance
- compensated obligation
- defined scope

## Examples
- The Medici commissioned Michelangelo to sculpt David for 400 florins in 1501. *(art)*
- In 1889, the French government commissioned Gustave Eiffel to build the Eiffel Tower for 6.5 million francs. *(engineering)*
- The New York Times commissioned photographer W. Eugene Smith to document Albert Schweitzer’s clinic in 1954. *(media)*

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