commissary
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She and her compatriots gather every Sunday outside the Otay Mesa facility to raise money to help detainees buy food in the prison commissary and call their families.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
The state-of-the-art complex has five sound stages, offices and other proper movie studio features such as a mill, commissary and base camp.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026
Their extra room became the commissary, to use an old Hollywood term.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Building 178, originally opened in 1942, had included a bowling alley, commissary, tailor shop and even a disco.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
The commissary people always paid for whatever they bought, but it was usually in scrip, and on top of it, the farmer didn’t have much choice about selling or not.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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