COMMISSARIAT


Meaning of COMMISSARIAT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌkä-mə-ˈser-ē-ət, especially for 3 ]

-ˈsär- noun

Etymology: New Latin commissariatus, from Medieval Latin commissarius

Date: 1779

1. : a system for supplying an army with food

2. : food supplies

3.

[Russian komissariat, from German Kommissariat, from New Latin commissariatus ]

: a government department in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics until 1946

4. : a board of commissioners

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.