COMMISSARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commissary mean? 

• COMMISSARY (noun)
  The noun COMMISSARY has 2 senses:

1. a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel)

2. a snack bar in a film studio

  Familiarity information: COMMISSARY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMISSARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("commissary" is a kind of...):

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commissary"):

post exchange; PX (a commissary on a United States Army post)

slop chest (commissary maintained aboard merchant ships to sell merchandise to the crew)

small stores (personal items conforming to regulations that are sold aboard ship or at a naval base and charged to the person's pay)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A snack bar in a film studio

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("commissary" is a kind of...):

buffet; snack bar; snack counter (usually inexpensive bar)

 Context examples 

Brooke is commander in chief, I am commissary general, the other fellows are staff officers, and you, ladies, are company.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)