noun. A uniformed attendant, such as a doorman.

noun. An attendant attached to hotels in continental Europe, who performs certain miscellaneous services, such as attending the arrival of railway-trains and steamboats to secure customers, looking after luggage, etc.

noun. A kind of messenger or light porter in general; one intrusted with commissions. In some European cities (as in London) a corps of commissionaires has been organized, drawn from the ranks of military pensioners.

noun. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like.

noun. One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.

noun. a uniformed doorman.

noun. A uniformed doorman.

noun. An undisclosed agent under European civil law.

noun. a uniformed doorman

"It converts its German distributor to a stripped-risk intermediary called a commissionaire to limit what would otherwise be sales margins taxable in Germany."

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