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commissary

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"Base store"

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒm.ɪ.s(ə)ɹi/Part of speech nounSorted acimmorssyStarts with CEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel)

Word origin

From Late Latin commissarius, from commissus, past participle of committō (“to commit, entrust to”). Doublet of commissar.

Used in a sentence

  • “We tried to provide for you while you were in there. We may not have put as much on your commissary as your in-laws, but what we gave was more to us.”
  • Great Deſtiny the Commiſſary of God;
  • It has been already hinted , that a Commissary, in Latin stiled Commisarius, is a Title of Ecclefiaftical Jurisdiction

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