Commissar

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  commissar
       n : an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach
           party principles to a military unit [syn: {political
           commissar}]

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



  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "commissar":
     Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, alderman,
     all-powerful ruler, archon, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, bailie,
     burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister,
     caesar, chancellor, city councilman, city father, city manager,
     commissary, commissionaire, commissioner, councillor, councilman,
     councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, czar,
     delegate, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, driver, duce, elder,
     emissary, envoy, hard master, headman, herald, induna, legate,
     legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, martinet, mayor,
     messenger, minister, minister of state, oligarch, oppressor,
     pharaoh, portreeve, reeve, secretary, secretary of state,
     selectman, slave driver, stickler, supervisor, syndic, tyrant,
     undersecretary, usurper, warden, warlord
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  COMMISSARY. An officer whose principal duties are to supply the army with 
  provisions. 
       2. The Act of April 14, 1818, s. 6, requires that the president, by and 
  with the consent of the senate, shall appoint a commissary general with the 
  rank, pay, and emoluments of colonel of ordnance, and as many assistants, to 
  be taken from the sub-alterns of the line, as the service may require. The 
  commissary general and his assistants shall perform such duties, in the 
  purchasing and issuing of rations to the armies of the United States, as the 
  president may direct. The duties of these officers are further detailed in 
  the subsequent sections of this act,, and in the Act of March 2, 1821.