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