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A commissary is someone delegated by a superior to execute a duty or an office. A delegate is an individual (or a member of a group called a delegation) who represents the interests of a larger organization (e. ... Superior has various meanings: A superior is a person who has the authority to command another, as in a superior officer. See: Superior (function) In a hierarchical structure of any kind, a superior is higher in the hierarchy and thus closer to the apex than the subordinate ones. ...


In the United States armed forces and prisons, it has the additional meaning of being a store for equipment and provisions. Modern commissaries are quite similar to civilian supermarkets. They provide military members with most of the same groceries available in the U.S. economy regardless of where they are stationed world-wide. United States commissaries are under the ultimate control of the Defense Commissary Agency. The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ... This page discusses common devices known as tools, for other meanings see Tool (disambiguation) Modern hammer A tool is, among other things, a device that provides a mechanical or mental advantage in accomplishing a task. ... The Defense Commissary Agency is an agency of the Federal government of the United States which is under the authority of the Department of Defense. ...


In the US film industry, the word commissary is often used to mean something which is refectory. Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... A refectory is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. ...


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Commissary & Cooking (354 words)
The Regiment utilizes both a part time Commissary, under the direction of a Commissary Sergeant, and field cooking in small messes by the men in the ranks when on campaign events.
The fully equipped Commissary is capable to providing full meal services the largest of events where our numbers have approached over a hundred in the field.
When the Commissary is present at an event, the field companies of the Regiment rotate Commissary duty with one full company being assigned to each meal time.
Commissary - LoveToKnow 1911 (109 words)
When a see is vacant the jurisdiction is exercised by a "special commissary" of the metropolitan.
Commissary is also a general military term for an official charged with the duties of supply, transport and finance of an army.
In the 17th and 18th centuries the commissaire des guerres, or Kriegskommissdr was an important official in continental armies, by whose agency the troops, in their relation to the civil inhabitants, were placed upon semipolitical control.
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