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