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commissary noun [ ˈkɒmɪs(ə)ri ]

• a deputy or delegate.
• a restaurant or food store in a military base, prison, or other institution.
Origin: late Middle English: from medieval Latin commissarius ‘person in charge’, from Latin commiss- ‘joined, entrusted’, from the verb committere (see commit).


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