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commissariat

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com·mis·sar·i·at  (km-sâr-t)
n.
1. A department of an army in charge of providing food and other supplies for the troops.
2. A food supply.
3. A major government department in the Soviet Union until 1946.
[French, from Medieval Latin commissrius, agent; see commissary. Sense 3, from Russian komissariat, from French commissariat.]
commissariat
Noun
a military department in charge of food supplies [Medieval Latin commissarius commissary]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.commissariatcommissariat - a stock or supply of foods
provisions, viands, victuals, provender
food, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
food cache - food in a secure or hidden storage place
larder - a supply of food especially for a household
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A retired clerk of the commissariat department came, too; he was drunk, had a loud and most unseemly laugh and only fancy--was without a waistcoat
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
A stiff commissariat officer of sixty, famous as a martinet, had then become enamoured of the gravity with which she drove the proprieties four-in-hand through the cathedral town society, and had solicited to be taken beside her on the box of the cool coach of ceremony to which that team was harnessed.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
But this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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