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com·mis·sar·i·at (kŏm'ĭ-sâr'ē-ĭt)  |
[French, from Medieval Latin commissārius, agent. See commissary. Sense 3, from Russian komissariat, from French commissariat.]
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a stock or supply of foods
Synonyms: provisions, provender, viands, victuals
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A commissariat is the department of an army charged with the provision of supplies, both food and forage, for the troops. The supply of military stores such as ammunition is not included in the duties of a commissariat. In almost every army the duties of transport and supply are performed by the same corps of departmental troops. An officer of a commissariat is called a Commissary.
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In the British Army, the Commissariat was a uniformed civilian service until 1869, when its officers transferred to the new Control Department as commissioned Army officers. The supply organisation of the British Army went through a number of incarnations, including the Commissariat and Transport Department, Staff and Corps, before becoming the Army Service Corps in 1888.
In the "Major General's Song" in Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan, the Major-General admits his lack of knowledge of "precisely what is meant by commissariat" (satirizing the 19th century British officers' lack of concrete military knowledge).
Military commissariats of the Soviet Army and modern Russian Army is а local military administrative agency that prepares and executes plans for military mobilization, maintains records on military manpower and economic resources available to the armed forces, provides pre-military training, drafts men for military service, organizes reserves for training, and performs other military functions at the local level.
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| Translations: Commissariat |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - forplejningskorps, forplejning, kommissariat
Nederlands (Dutch)
voedselvoorziening (leger), volkscommisariaat (Sovjet Unie), raad van commissarissen
Français (French)
n. - (Mil) intendance, (Pol, Hist) commissariat (en URSS)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Intendantur, Kommissariat
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (στρατ.) επιμελητεία, (ιστ.) επιτροπάτο, κομισαριάτο
Italiano (Italian)
commissariato
Português (Portuguese)
n. - comissariado (m)
Español (Spanish)
n. - comisaría, intendencia
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - intendentur, kommissariat (i Sovjet)
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
军需部门, 粮食补给, 粮食
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 軍需部門, 糧食補給, 糧食
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 병참부, 식량 보급, 식량 보급원
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 兵站部, 人民委員会
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) دائرة الميرة و التموين في الجيش, مصلحه حكوميه سوفيتيه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - חיל-אספקה, אספקה, מחלקה ממשלתית בברה"מ עד 6491
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