commissary
Other forms: commissaries
A commissary is a food and supply store for employees. On military bases, soldiers and their families shop in a commissary.
The original commissaries were the military ones, from an earlier meaning of the word, "military official in charge of food supplies and transport." Today, many workplaces have commissaries where employees can buy prepared food, provisions, and sometimes equipment. Some factory laborers, miners, incarcerated people, and office workers shop at commissaries. And since Hollywood movie studios first opened in the early 20th century, they operated cafeterias on their lots, known as commissaries, for their employees.
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a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel)types:slop chestcommissary maintained aboard merchant ships to sell merchandise to the crewsmall storespersonal items conforming to regulations that are sold aboard ship or at a naval base and charged to the person's pay
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a snack bar in a film studio
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