Meaning of Commissary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
2. An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
3. A cafeteria at a television or movie studio.
4. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
5. An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
6. An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
7. The judge in a commissary court.
8. A higher-ranking police officer.

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Examples

“The base⟳ [Fort Meade] has its own⟳ post⟳ offices, schools, police, and fire departments. Area children, military brats and civilians alike, would flock to the base⟳ daily to take⟳ golf, tennis, and swimming lessons. Though we lived off base⟳, my mother still used its commissary as our grocery store, to stock⟳ up on items in bulk.”

““We tried to provide⟳ for you while you were in there. We may not have⟳ put⟳ as much on your commissary as your in-laws, but what we gave was more to us.””

“Great Deſtiny the Commiſſary of God;”

“It has been already hinted , that a Commissary, in Latin stiled Commisarius, is a Title of Ecclefiaftical Jurisdiction”

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