commissionaire:
(plural: ‘commissionaires; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)
a commissionaire, Canada
(mostly in Europe, not including Britain) a uniformed attendant of a hotel whose duty was to wait at the railway stations, find customers, help them finish the formalities at the stations, take charge of their luggage and bring them to the hotel;
(in Britain and Commonwealth countries) a uniformed attendant or messenger at a hotel, theatre, cinema, etc.; a uniformed doorman or usher at a theatre, cinema, etc.
(in Canada) a member of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires, a respectable office/company that was formed to help the ex-servicemen find jobs as messengers, attendants, doormen, etc.;
(in Europe) a person who does business of delivering sold goods to the customers, on behalf of somebody else on commission or small payment,
a hotel commissionaire
Farhaan is the senior most commissionaire of this hotel and is liked by everyone.
In the past, all of the theatre commissionaires were men, but these days one often finds women commissionaires at the theatres, cinemas and hotels!
There are many security guard services with the name ‘commissionaire’ from which anyone can hire dependable security guards.
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