commissary

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
2. An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
3. A cafeteria at a television or movie studio.
4. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
5. An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
6. An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
7. The judge in a commissary court.
8. A higher-ranking police officer.

Sinonieme

trustee

canteen

caterer

commissariat

commissioner

logistics

mess hall

post exchange

procurator

quartermaster

steward

stewardess

syndic

tutor

victualer

victualler

post exchange element

PX element

army exchange

vestry man

refectioner

caretaker

Vertalings

comisario

Beauftragte

comissari

komiser

mümessil

vekil

economato

επιμελητεία

النائب

commissariat

cellule d’économat

commissaris

comissário

cantina

τροφοδότης

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈkɒm.ɪ.s(ə)ɹi/

Etimologie (Engels)

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