commissariat
Meaning of commissariat
noun
- a department for the supply of food and equipment.
- a government department of the USSR before 1946.
late 16th century (as a Scots legal term denoting the jurisdiction of a commissary, often spelled commissariot ): from French commissariat, reinforced by medieval Latin commissariatus, both from medieval Latin commissarius ‘person in charge’, from Latin committere ‘entrust’.
Information about commissariat
- It is a name.
- The plural form of commissariat is: commissariats.
- Languages in which commissariat is used:
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Hyphenation of commissariat
com-mis-sariat
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- commissariat is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
commissariat synonyms
Meaning provisions:
provisions, provender, viands, victuals
Anagrams of commissariat
Words that rhyme with commissariat
Secretariat, Shariat, hospodariat, lariat, lumpenproletariat, nonproletariat, proletariat, proprietariat, prothonotariat, protonotariat, salariat, secretariat, shariat, subproletariat, undersecretariat, precariat, Sheriat, sheriat, professoriat, Buriat, Luriat
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