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commissary

[kom-uh-ser-ee] / ˈkɒm əˌsɛr i /
NOUN
deputy
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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

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

She said that during legal service consultations, commissary pricing frequently comes up.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

He said commissary prices were already high before they increased around mid-June.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

He’s never eaten in a universal commissary with choices from udon to bucatini, Irish stew to pepián.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Immigrants detained at two federal facilities in California have launched a boycott in protest of increasing and, in their view, burdensome prices at the facilities’ commissaries for items including tampons, coffee and soup.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Public grocery stores already exist in the form of commissaries on military bases.

From MarketWatch Dec. 29, 2025

What you had in the beginning were these expensive to operate commissaries that were giant, occupying valuable real estate in New York City.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2022

His paternal grandfather, John Becker, a World War II lieutenant, started Eurpac, a nearly 70-year-old company that distributes to military commissaries and exchanges.

From New York Times Aug. 28, 2019

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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