commissaries
- plural of commissary.
Example Sentences
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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
Instead, they run their business from commissaries or their home kitchen, making them known as cottage bakers.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
Prisons run by state and federal governments contract out many services to private firms — like health care, transport, meals, telecommunication, commissaries and uniforms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
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
