noun. A department of an army in charge of providing food and other supplies for the troops.

noun. A food supply.

noun. A major government department in the Soviet Union until 1946.

noun. That department of an army the duties of which consist in supplying transport, provisions, forage, camp equipage, etc., to the troops; also, the body of officers in that department.

noun. The office or employment of a commissary.

noun. In Scots law, the jurisdiction of a commissary; the district of country over which the authority or jurisdiction of a commissary extends. See extract.

Pertaining to or concerned in furnishing supplies: as, the commissariat department; commissariat arrangements.

noun. The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

noun. The body of officers charged with such service.

noun. A supply of food.

noun. The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.

noun. A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.

noun. a stock or supply of foods

"At the same time he informed me that his Government intended to transfer the basis of the British commissariat from the French coast to Antwerp as soon as all German ships were swept off the North"

food  nutrient  

food cache  larder  

commissary  cultivator  cytoskeleton  heavily-laden  iniraq