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Rarecommissary
The correct spelling is commissary.
How to pronounce commissary
noun
Say it like: Com-mis-sar-ee
The correct spelling is commissary. A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
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Definition
noun
- 1.A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
- 2.A cafeteria at a movie studio.
- 3.One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
- 4.An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
- 5.An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
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