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Definition of Commissary
1. Noun. A retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel).
Generic synonyms: Shop, Store
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
2. Noun. A snack bar in a film studio.
Definition of Commissary
1. n. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
Definition of Commissary
1. Noun. A store primarily serving soldiers. ¹
2. Noun. A cafeteria at a movie studio. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Commissary
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commissary
Literary usage of Commissary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War by New Jersey Adjutant-General's Office (1872)
"Assistant commissary of Issues ; commissary of Issues; also Assistant commissary,
... commissary of Issues. VOORHEES, CORNELIUS. commissary of Issues ..."
2. The Immigration Problem: A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, William Jett Lauck, Rufus Daniel Smith (1922)
"Many of the larger Southern contracting firms have abandoned the commissary as
a source of profit, since employing foreigners, and maintain it only as a ..."
3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"In 1617 he was appointed by the dean and chapter of Lincoln commissary of their
peculiars in the counties of Northampton, Rutland, Huntingdon, and Leicester ..."
4. Maryland as a Proprietary Province by Newton Dennison Mereness (1901)
"As early as the year 1681 the judge of probate, or commissary general as he ...
In the year 1715 an act of assembly directed that the deputy commissary in ..."
5. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1876)
"Deputy commissary, as Captain. Assistant commissary, as Lieutenant. ... Officers are
to serve five years in the rank of commissary and Deputy ..."
6. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1858)
"Instruction for the commissary. 1. The commissary shall have to regulate ...
The commissary shall keep a correct account of the provisions which shall be ..."
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