commissary
Example Sentences
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The “kitty” is then resold, creating a secondary market within the jails that is cheaper than the commissary.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025
Hourlong lines to buy food at the commissary or to make a phone call.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
The next day, Sinodis said, his client’s commissary and phone accounts were zeroed out.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
The leftover money will either go toward the inmates’ commissary accounts or scholarship funds for formerly incarcerated firefighters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
I’d heard that there was a British commissary in White Plains, which was about twenty-five miles southwest across the New York State line.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
