Usually means: Store for inmates, military personnel.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. commissary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. commissary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commissary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commissary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commissary: Wiktionary
  6. commissary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. commissary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. commissary: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Commissary, commissary: Dictionary.com
  10. commissary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Commissary (store), Commissary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Commissary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. commissary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. commissary: Rhymezone
  15. Commissary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. commissary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. commissary: Free Dictionary
  18. commissary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. commissary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. commissary: Wordnik
  21. commissary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  22. commissary: Vocabulary.com
  23. Commissary: Wordnik

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. commissary: Legal dictionary

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  1. commissary: Encyclopedia

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

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