commissariat
nounUS /ˌkɑ.mɪˈsɛr.i.ət/
Etymology Borrowed from French commissariat.
1
A supply of food.
- We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - " blanket " for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79:
2
The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
3
Historical A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
4
A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.