Commissary

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Commissary \Com"mis*sa*ry\, n.; pl. {Commissaries}. [LL.
     commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to
     commit, intrust to. See {Commit}.]
     1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by
        a superior power; a commissioner.
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              Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne.
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     2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises
        ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a
        distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe.
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     3. (Mil.)
        (a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the
            commissary of musters.
        (b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a
            body of troops or a military post; -- officially
            called {commissary of subsistence}. [U. S.]
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                  Washington wrote to the President of Congress .
                  . . urging the appointment of a commissary
                  general, a quartermaster general, a commissary
                  of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W.
                                                    Irving
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     {Commissary general}, an officer in charge of some special
        department of army service; as:
        (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and
            transport department, or of the ordnance store
            department. [Eng.]
        (b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.]
  
     {Commissary general of subsistence} (Mil. U. S.), the head of
        the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase
        and issue of provisions for the army.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  commissary
       n 1: a retail store that sells equipment and provisions to
            military personnel
       2: a snack bar in a film studio

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "commissary":
     PX, abundance, accumulation, amassment, backlog, budget,
     canned foods, canteen, caterer, chandler, collection, commissar,
     commissariat, commissionaire, commissioner, cornucopia, cumulation,
     dehydrated foods, delegate, donor, dump, emissary, envoy,
     food supply, fresh foods, frozen foods, furnisher, groceries,
     grocery, heap, herald, hoard, inventory, larder, legate, manciple,
     mass, material, materials, materiel, merchant, messenger, minister,
     munitions, patron, pile, plenitude, plenty, post exchange,
     provender, provider, provisioner, provisionment, provisions,
     purveyor, quartermaster, rations, repertoire, repertory, retailer,
     rick, secretary, stack, steward, stock, stock clerk,
     stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, storekeeper, stores, supplier,
     supplies, supply on hand, sutler, treasure, treasury, victualer,
     vivandier