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commissariat

com·mis·sar·i·at [ kòmmi sérree ət ] (plural com·mis·sar·i·ats)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. army army supply department: an army department responsible for organizing food and supplies

2. army army supplies: food and other supplies given to soldiers

3. history government former Soviet government department: a government department in the former Soviet Union before 1946

[Late 16th century. < assumed medieval Latin commissariatus< commissarius (see commissar)]
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