Commissaries

Word COMMISSARIES
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Definitions and meanings of "Commissaries"

What do we mean by commissaries?

A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.

A cafeteria at a 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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The word "commissaries" in example sentences

So threats to cut the commissaries are a threat to cut a part of their compensation package. ❋ Unknown (2003)

On his complaint indeed the States recalled their commissaries, but the year was lost; nor had greater results been brought about in Italy or on the Rhine. ❋ John Richard Green (1860)

Although this is well known, our modern theologians seem to have been unable to avoid jumping to the conclusion that, whenever women are mentioned in the ministry, it must be only as ministers of their substance, either as a kind of commissaries, or, at most, as kindergarten officials. ❋ Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1858)

To supply the men the army needed commissaries, purchasing agents with money to spend or authority to obligate the government to pay for goods. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

This was a double problem: The commissaries needed transport to get goods to the troops, and Washington needed it to take the goods along when his troops moved. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

The commissaries arranged logistics on June 27, while Contrecoeur, Coulon, and other senior officers held a council of war. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

The troops on the ground will have to make do with what's left in the commissaries and supply depots plus what they can scrounge off the land abroad and at home. ❋ Jodie Allen (2011)

And her website's "Military Coupon Program" describes how to get expired coupons to troops, since stores and commissaries at U.S. military bases overseas will accept coupons up to six months after the expiration date. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Washington recommended that John Carlyle and William Ramsey be appointed commissaries, but Dinwiddie refused to approve them. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

Sometimes commissaries have food-prep areas and fridges as well, all of which you'd need to consider when tallying a truck or cart's overall footprint. ❋ Nina Shen Rastogi (2010)

He could not punish commissaries, however, because they were civilian agents for the colonial government. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

On this specific point, Mr McQuaid accepted that UCI would communicate with organisers and commissaries immediately to ensure the safety aspects are given the highest priority. ❋ Unknown (2011)

John Carlyle operated at Alexandria, but Washington needed commissaries where his troops were stationed. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

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