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commissariat

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com⋅mis⋅sar⋅i⋅at

  [kom-uh-sair-ee-uht]
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–noun
1. any of the major governmental divisions of the U.S.S.R.: called ministry since 1946.
2. the organized method or manner by which food, equipment, transport, etc., is delivered to armies.
3. the department of an army charged with supplying provisions.
Origin:
1600–10; < NL commissāriātus, equiv. to ML commissāri(us) commissary + -ātus -ate 3 ; (def. 1) < Russ komissariát ≪ NL, as above
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com·mis·sar·i·at   (kŏm'ĭ-sâr'ē-ĭt)   
n.  

  1. A department of an army in charge of providing food and other supplies for the troops.

  2. A food supply.

  3. A major government department in the Soviet Union until 1946.


[French, from Medieval Latin commissārius, agent; see commissary. Sense 3, from Russian komissariat, from French commissariat.]
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