commissariat

A supply of food.

We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - " blanket " for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint.

The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.

A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.

A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.