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commissioned gentleman Fur Trade, Hist. 
n. in the Hudson's Bay Company, any officer of the rank of assistant clerk or above.
See also: Company's gentleman gentleman people
- 1828 (1872) Doctor Hamlyn and myself, were accompanied down to our craft by fourteen commissioned gentlemen and about as many clerks.
- 1907 I entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1863 as a clerk and retired in 1903 a commissioned officer of twenty years' standing.
- 1942 He belonged to that splendid group of "Commissioned Gentlemen" who during the nineteenth century built up the great traditions of the Hudson's Bay Company. . . .
- 1828 (1872) Doctor Hamlyn and myself, were accompanied down to our craft by fourteen commissioned gentlemen and about as many clerks.