commissariat

  1. Noun.  A supply of food.
  2. Noun.  The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
  3. Noun.  (dated) A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
  4. Noun.  commissionership.
  5. Noun.  police station.

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