Definition of "commissaries" [commissaries]

• Plural form of commissary. (noun)

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• "So threats to cut the commissaries are a threat to cut a part of their compensation package."
• "On his complaint indeed the States recalled their commissaries, but the year was lost; nor had greater results been brought about in Italy or on the Rhine."
• "Although this is well known, our modern theologians seem to have been unable to avoid jumping to the conclusion that, whenever women are mentioned in the ministry, it must be only as ministers of their substance, either as a kind of commissaries, or, at most, as kindergarten officials."