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commissary

[kom-uh-ser-ee] / ˈkɒm əˌsɛr i /
NOUN
deputy
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Erewhon’s stores are concentrated in one area because the company operates with a commissary model, in which its central kitchen is in Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

When a man from the commissary ran in with an order to evacuate the building, Blaschum went upstairs to find her flying partners.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

He said commissary prices were already high before they increased around mid-June.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

The barite mine where Dad worked had a commissary, and the mine owner deducted our bill and the rent for the depot out of Dad’s paycheck every month.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

After struggling through a postpandemic slowdown, the company got an offer that year to serve Navy commissaries in California, Oregon, Washington and Florida.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

By contrast, logistics is pretty mundane; the big contractors don’t pine for contracts to build oiler ships, cranes, or commissaries.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Immigrants detained at two federal facilities in California have launched a boycott in protest of increasing and, in their view, burdensome prices at the facilities’ commissaries for items including tampons, coffee and soup.

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

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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