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Borrowed from French commissariat.

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commissariat (plural commissariats)

  1. A supply of food.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79:
      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.
  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.

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French

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Etymology

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From commissaire +‎ -at.

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  • IPA(key): /kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja/
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commissariat m (plural commissariats)

  1. commissionership
  2. police station
    Synonym: poste de police

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