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commissariats

commissariats is the plural of commissariat.

Meaning of commissariat

Noun

commissariat (plural commissariats)

  1. A supply of food.
    • We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - " blanket " for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79
  2. The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
  3. (historical) A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
  4. A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.

Questions about commissariats

What is commissariats the plural of?
Commissariats is the plural of commissariat.

Words near commissariats in the dictionary

  1. commissaire
  2. commissaires
  3. commissar
  4. commissarial
  5. commissariat
  6. commissariats
  7. commissaries
  8. commissaries general
  9. commissaris
  10. commissars
  11. commissarship

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