commissariat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French commissariat.

Noun

commissariat (plural commissariats)

1. A supply of food.
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.

Translations

a department of the government of the Soviet Union

• Belarusian: камісарыя́т m (kamisaryját)
• French: commissariat (fr) m
• German: Kommissariat n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: комиссариа́т (ru) m (komissariát)
• Ukrainian: комісаріа́т m (komisariát)

Anagrams

• marcatissimo

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja/

• Audio:

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Noun

commissariat m (plural commissariats)

1. A commissionership.
2. A police station.

Synonyms

(police station): commissariat de police, poste

Further reading

• “commissariat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.