Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a commissary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office or employment of a commissary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The position or employment of a
commissary .
Etymologies
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commissary + -ship
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Examples
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After returning from Portugal in January or February, 1776, he went to London, where he applied to Lord Dartmouth for a commissaryship or some similar post in the British army in America, his first letter being dated May 7, from "15 Orange Street, Leicester Fields."
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