commissary
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Reiner also wanted the trust to top up his commissary account, court records show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Men would also scroll YouTube videos, partake in online sports betting and convince women on the outside to date them, sometimes seemingly to get those women to wire money into their commissary accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Its 2,600 Los Angeles employees have access to a free commissary and an endless supply of cereal, packaged snacks and other prepared fare at small food stations scattered throughout the sprawling campus on Olympic Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
According to contemporaneous accounts, German prisoners of war in U.S. camps were sometimes offered Cokes at the commissary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
We cleared a space on a groundsheet and pooled our commissary.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Public grocery stores already exist in the form of commissaries on military bases.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
Instead, they run their business from commissaries or their home kitchen, making them known as cottage bakers.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
Pennsylvania’s contract for $50 million with GTL includes a 22.5 percent kickback from the sale of music, e-messaging, games, e-books, and deposits into people’s prison bank accounts—called commissaries.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2024
Since launching in Pico-Union, CloudKitchens has expanded rapidly, opening ghost-kitchen commissaries in Koreatown, Long Beach, Anaheim and downtown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
They stated, furthermore, that they were not being paid in real money but in scrip, which was good only to buy Virginia ham in the company commissaries.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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