commissariat
IPA: kˈɑmʌsɛriˈæt
noun
- A supply of food.
- The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
- (historical) A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
- A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.
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Examples of "commissariat" in Sentences
- The commissariats helped to centralize power.
- A Commissary was an officer of a Commissariat.
- The same goes for 'Reich Commissariat Ostland' etc.
- Dight served in the commissariat at Fort Cumberland.
- Thus, the site is called a Commissariat of the Holy Land.
- Barlee went into the army where he was in the Commissariat department.
- Mussolini was the titular head of the Italian commissariat of aviation.
- John later became the Chief Commissariat of Major General Winfield Scott.
- This point of view was backed by the Soviet Commissariat of Nationalities.
- Military commissariat is a military institution in some European counties.