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commissary

[kom-uh-ser-ee] / ˈkɒm əˌsɛr i /
NOUN
deputy
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Men would also scroll YouTube videos, partake in online sports betting and convince women on the outside to date them, sometimes seemingly to get those women to wire money into their commissary accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

According to contemporaneous accounts, German prisoners of war in U.S. camps were sometimes offered Cokes at the commissary.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

She said that during legal service consultations, commissary pricing frequently comes up.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Marshals Service on Johnson’s behalf, scheduling a phone call with Johnson, as well as making sure there was money provided on his behalf in the prison commissary.

From Slate May 28, 2026

“Cash for the commissary, are you mad? I asked for rolls and coffee, not a jewel-encrusted egg! Don’t you know who we are? We are the Babushkinovs! Our name is all the credit we need!”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The officer said he wasn’t aware of the change but that the vendor is Keefe Group, which supplies commissaries at prisons and immigrant detention centers across the country.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Public grocery stores already exist in the form of commissaries on military bases.

From MarketWatch Dec. 29, 2025

Instead, they run their business from commissaries or their home kitchen, making them known as cottage bakers.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2025

His paternal grandfather, John Becker, a World War II lieutenant, started Eurpac, a nearly 70-year-old company that distributes to military commissaries and exchanges.

From New York Times Aug. 28, 2019

They stated, furthermore, that they were not being paid in real money but in scrip, which was good only to buy Virginia ham in the company commissaries.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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