Definitions for commissaries

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commissaries com·mis·sar·y

Spelling: [kom-uh-ser-ee]

IPA: /ˈkɒm əˌsɛr i/

Commissaries is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 758 anagrams from letters in commissaries (aceiimmorsss).

Definitions for commissaries

noun

1. a store that sells food and supplies to the personnel or workers in a military post, mining camp, lumber camp, or the like.
2. a dining room or cafeteria, especially one in a motion-picture studio.
3. a person to whom some responsibility or role is delegated by a superior power; a deputy.
4. (in France) a police official, usually just below the police chief in rank.
5. commissar.

Origin of commissaries

1350-1400; Middle English commissarie (Anglo-French) Medieval Latin commissārius, equivalent to Latin commiss(us) (past participle of committere to commit) + -ārius

Examples for commissaries

The commissary said there was quite sufficient there to hang him.

There was no more question of the commissary of police that evening.

To cook the macaroni the commissary sold hotpots, which you needed a permit to possess and could only buy one a time.

With generic brand cigarettes sold in commissary for about a dollar each, packs were an effective unit of currency.

One of the strangest parts of the show, is the power the commissary has over inmates lives.

I suspect [Teresa] will get money sent in to her, so she can shop at the commissary.

I don't recall ever seeing him in the commissary, and who would forget?

Thereupon she handed Muche's books and the copies set by Florent to the commissary.

The commissary, however, had begun to read the copies with a grave air.

He was rewarded with the appointment of commissary of Police at Niort.