commissary

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel)
  2. noun a snack bar in a film studio

Etymology

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

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