English Dictionary

commissary

/ˈkɑmɪˌsɛɹi/

noun

A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners. / An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.

I need to pick up some supplies from the commissary.

意味（1）

A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.

意味（2）

An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.

意味（3）

A cafeteria at a movie studio.

意味（4）

One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.

Great Deſtiny the Commiſſary of God;

意味（5）

An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.

It has been already hinted , that a Commissary, in Latin stiled Commisarius, is a Title of Ecclefiaftical Jurisdiction

意味（6）

An officer who supplies provisions to an army.

意味（7）

(Scotland, law) The judge in a commissary court.

意味（8）

A higher-ranking police officer.