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commissariat
[ kom-uh-sair-ee-uht ]
noun
- any of the major governmental divisions of the U.S.S.R.: called ministry since 1946.
- the organized method or manner by which food, equipment, transport, etc., is delivered to armies.
- the department of an army charged with supplying provisions.
commissariat
/ ˌkɒmɪˈsɛərɪət /
noun
- (in the former Soviet Union) a government department before 1946 Now calledministry
- a military department in charge of food supplies, equipment, etc
- the offices of such a department
- food supplies
Word History and Origins
Origin of commissariat1
Word History and Origins
Origin of commissariat1
Example Sentences
The commissariat held 38 women, it said, some of whom slept in the chief's office overnight under police supervision, where other detainees were permitted "a breather" during the day.
And in his summoning of the nation to seriousness, he is scalding about the Defense Department’s “woke commissariat.”
Across from the town’s voenkomat, or military commissariat, the cream-colored walls on Lenin Street are smeared haphazardly with gobs of white paint.
Last week at a voenkomat, or military commissariat, in northwestern Moscow, wives, mothers, and children gathered to say goodbye to loved ones being shipped off to fight.
But there have been multiple reports of military commissariats deploying soldiers to the front just days after they were summoned.
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