commissary
Example Sentences
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Their extra room became the commissary, to use an old Hollywood term.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Hourlong lines to buy food at the commissary or to make a phone call.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
The next day, Sinodis said, his client’s commissary and phone accounts were zeroed out.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
To make way for the Campus Project, NBCUniversal demolished the old commissary, a sound-mixing facility and other structures.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
Business was good—or rather it would have been good if we had had anything to sell, and people had had anything to pay for it with besides commissary scrip.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
