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commissary

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Noun

  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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