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   commissariat

   /ˌkɒmɪˈsɛːrɪət/

   noun

   • 1. a department for the supply of food and equipment.
   • 2. a government department of the USSR before 1946.

   Word Origin late 16th century (as a Scots legal term denoting the jurisdiction of a commissary, often spelled commissariot): from French commissariat, reinforced by medieval Latin commissariatus, both from medieval Latin commissarius ‘person in charge’, from Latin committere ‘entrust’.

   Scrabble Points: 18

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