commissary.
A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
Meaning & usage
A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
A cafeteria at a television or movie studio.
One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
The judge in a commissary court.
A higher-ranking police officer.
Where this word comes from
From Late Latin commissarius, from commissus, past participle of committō (“to commit, entrust to”). Doublet of commissar.
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