commissariat
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French commissariat.
Noun[edit]
commissariat (plural commissariats)
- A supply of food.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79:
- We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - " blanket " for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint.
- The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
- (historical) A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
- A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.
Translations[edit]
a department of the government of the Soviet Union
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From commissaire + -at.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
commissariat m (plural commissariats)
Further reading[edit]
- “commissariat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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