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COMMISSARY
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I. (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)
