commissary
IPA: kˈɑmʌsɛri
noun
- 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 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.
- (Scotland, law) The judge in a commissary court.
- A higher-ranking police officer.
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Examples of "commissary" in Sentences
- We don't have a commissary in our school.
- The commissary store is the central supply.
- A Commissary was an officer of a Commissariat.
- The commissary was destroyed in the early 1900s.
- It was the Quartermaster's storehouse and commissary.
- He also built homes and a commissary for the workers of the mill.
- Ingrid joined the search for Evie at the schoolhouse and commissary.
- The commissary officer is the centralized authority for a task or office.
- Pirogov was born in Moscow, the son of a major in the commissary service.
- He was chancellor of the diocese and joint commissary of the exchequer court.