commissariat

/kom-uh-sair-ee-uht/US // ˌkɒm əˈsɛər i ət //UK // (ˌkɒmɪˈsɛərɪət) //

小卖部,专员公署,委员长,专员团

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of the major governmental divisions of the U.S.S.R.: called ministry since 1946.
- : the organized method or manner by which food, equipment, transport, etc., is delivered to armies.
- : the department of an army charged with supplying provisions.

All were badly and insufficiently fed, as much from disorganized commissariat arrangements as from actual want of supplies.
By some extraordinary blunder of the commissariat the 32d had set forth that morning without breaking their fast.
What can they do without a commissariat, what can they do without pay, and who is to pay them in a bankrupt nation?
The French, on the contrary, gave cheques on their commissariat chest at Varna, which were only payable on presentation there.
A few days afterwards I received permission to draw rations from the commissariat, by order of the Secretary of State.