commissioners
- 1Plural of commissioner.
The commissioners met behind closed doors to settle the budget dispute.
Several commissioners signed the report before it was released to the public.
Note
An ordinary -s plural that keeps every meaning of the singular: members of a commission, officials heading a government department or police force, people who commission a piece of work, and, in European Union usage, European Commissioners. The commission is the body and the commissioners are the people in it, so the verb is plural (the commissioners are). The possessive puts the apostrophe after the s: the commissioners' report.
commissioners is a form of commissioner
commissioner, noun: An official who heads a government department, especially a police force. Full entry
- Forms
- commissionercommissioners plural
- Spelling
- commissioner → commissioners: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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