commissary
noun
Meaning
- 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.
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