commissary
Example Sentences
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The state-of-the-art complex has five sound stages, offices and other proper movie studio features such as a mill, commissary and base camp.
From Los Angeles Times
Public grocery stores already exist in the form of commissaries on military bases.
From MarketWatch
“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 Literature
Their extra room became the commissary, to use an old Hollywood term.
From Los Angeles Times
The “kitty” is then resold, creating a secondary market within the jails that is cheaper than the commissary.
From Los Angeles Times
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