commissar /komˈi-sär or ko-mi-särˈ/

1. A commissary (officer)
2. (also People's Commissar) in the former Soviet Union, a head of a government department (after 1946 called minister)
3. (also political commissar) in the former Soviet Union, a Communist Party official responsible for political education, encouragement of party loyalty, etc, esp in military units

commissāˈriat noun

1. The department charged with the furnishing of provisions, eg for an army
2. The supply of provisions
3. The office of a commissary or of a commissar
4. A body of commissars

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