Definition of: commissary

(kom′ə·ser′ē) noun plural ·sar·ies
1. A commissioner.
2. An army officer in charge of subsistence, etc.
3. A church officer appointed by a bishop to exercise spiritual jurisdiction or hold an ecclesiastical court in distant parts of a diocese.
4. A store selling food and general provisions, as at a lumber camp.
5. An administrative division or territory, especially one in Colombia.
6. A wagon carrying food and provisions.
—adjective Pertaining to, of, housing, or from a commissary. [<Med. L commissarius. See COMMISSAR.]
—com·mis·sar·i·al (kom′ə·sâr′ē·əl) adjective
—com′·mis·sar′y·ship noun