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noun. A supermarket for military personnel and their dependents, usually located on a military installation.

noun. A store where food and equipment are sold, as in a mining camp.

noun. A lunchroom or cafeteria, especially one in a film or television studio.

noun. A person to whom a special duty is given by a higher authority; a deputy.

noun. In a general sense, one to whom some charge, duty, or office is committed by a superior power; one who is sent or delegated to execute some office or duty in the place, or as the representative, of his superior; a commissioner.

noun. Eccles., an officer who by delegation from the bishop exercises spiritual jurisdiction in remote parts of a diocese, or is intrusted with the performance of the bishop's duties in his absence.

noun. In Scots law, the judge in a commissary-court; in present practice, the sheriff of each county acting in the commissary-court. See commissary-court.

noun. Milit., a name given to officers or officials of various grades, especially to officers of the commissariat department.

noun. [F. commissaire de police.] A superior officer of police in France.

noun. A general store for supplying workmen in any large industry.

noun. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.

noun. An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.

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noun. An officer having charge of a special service.

noun. An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.

noun. The commissary general of subsistence.

noun. the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army.

noun. A store primarily serving soldiers.

noun. A cafeteria at a movie studio.

noun. a snack bar in a film studio

noun. a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel)

"He presumed the boat had served to provision the fort from the main Spanish commissary in Fort Niebla, but now it would help Cochrane complete his victory."

buffet  snack bar  snack counter  

adjutant  chancellor  chaplain  commandant  commander in chief  

PX  abundance  accumulation  agent  amassment  

commissary of subsistence