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commissary
  1. A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
  2. A cafeteria at a movie studio.
  3. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
  4. An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “By contrast, the commissary officer has been responsible for the provision of rations alone.”
      “Both Askham and Crokford were cited to appear before the bishop's commissary for inquiry and judgement.”
      “These included short-sheeting a fellow guardsman's bed, shooting mailboxes and road signs for fun, and raiding the base commissary for Pop Tarts.”
commissariat
  1. A supply of food.
  2. The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
  3. (historical) A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
  4. A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Successful field officers of the Finnish war were brought to the defence commissariat.”
      “After Trotsky's departure from the war commissariat in 1925, the army was reduced to under 600,000 men, with a strong cavalry element.”
      “The rising euro and the refusal of the EU commissariat to reflate the EU economy implies that the exporting side of the Irish economy will be squeezed.”
commissar
  1. An official of the Communist Party, often attached to a military unit, who was responsible for political education.
  2. In the Soviet Union, the head of a commissariat.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He gave his commissar of enlightenment, Anatoly V. Lunarcharsky, two weeks to work out the details.”
      “Ninotchka is a Russian commissar who has come to Paris to sell jewellery belonging to a grand duchess.”
      “The team was enjoying a little capitalist indulgence under the watchful eye of their commissar.”
commissaryship
  1. The position or employment of a commissary.
commissaryships
  1. plural of commissaryship
commissariats
  1. plural of commissariat
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He has made good use of other archival materials as well, including the papers of the commissariats of justice and health.”
      “The direct selection of volunteers for The Reserves may be entrusted to preliminary selection centers, which should be organic divisions of military commissariats.”
      “With party members dominating administrative bodies, which included the people's commissariats at the top, those bodies functioned as executors of party policy.”
commissaries
  1. plural of commissary
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It must first ask the board of commissaries, in this case the House of Representatives.”
      “Under the supervision of the Bishop of London, commissaries were appointed in many colonies to provide supervision and support of church life.”
      “After reading this story, I wonder If there will be any changes in the way we do business in our base exchanges and commissaries.”
commissars
  1. plural of commissar
  2. Examples:
    1. “There's an underlying ascription of bad faith to language writers, that they are somehow cultural commissars, in a sentence like that.”
      “They dug into their pockets, but not one of the well-fed commissars could find a single kopek.”
      “Piedmontese commissars sent to Venice by Charles Albert were almost immediately withdrawn, and Manin assumed dictatorial powers.”
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