| 单词 | subsistence department |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubsistence department subsistence department n. U.S. (now historical) (the name of) the department of the United States Army that has charge of the supply of food and other provisions to troops. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > administration and supply branches baggage1603 field train1692 Corps of Wagoners1802 wagon-corps1810 subsistence department1820 baggage-train1841 rear echelon1852 Control Department1867 Army Service Corps1869 A.S.C.1871 pay corps1876 Q1916 echelon1922 1820 Niles' Weekly Reg. 29 July 391/2 Promotions and appointments, made in the army of the United States,..and the recent appointments in the subsistence department. 1863 Congress. Globe App. 184/2 That there be added to the subsistence department of the Army one brigadier general,..who shall be Commissary General of Subsistence. 1912 F. A. Gause & C. C. Carr Story of Panama i. ix. 124 If the Sanitary and the Quartermaster's Departments are essential and basal, no less may be said of the Subsistence Department. 2007 US Fed News (Nexis) 28 June Officers were allowed to buy commissary items at cost from the subsistence department. < as lemmas |
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