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

n. A food supply.

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

n. A supply of food.

n. The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.

n. A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.

n. The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

n. The body of officers charged with such service.

n. That department of an army the duties of which consist in supplying transport, provisions, forage, camp equipage, etc., to the troops; also, the body of officers in that department.

n. The office or employment of a commissary.

n. In Scots law, the jurisdiction of a commissary; the district of country over which the authority or jurisdiction of a commissary extends. See extract.

Pertaining to or concerned in furnishing supplies: as, the commissariat department; commissariat arrangements.

n. a stock or supply of foods

"But it proved very difficult to keep them up to bringing a sufficient supply, and as they had a full share of the universal spirit of haggling, the commissariat was a very harassing and troublesome business, and as to the boys, it was evident that the experiment was not successful."

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food cache    larder   

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