Synonyms for commissary
ˈkɒm əˌsɛr icom·mis·sa·ry

Princeton's WordNet

1. commissarynoun

   a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel)

2. commissarynoun

   a snack bar in a film studio

Matched Categories

1. • Military
   • Shop
   • Snack Bar

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1. List of paraphrases for "commissary":

   canex, canteen

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1. Steve Fishman:

   At one point, Bernie Madoff cornered the hot chocolate market, bernie Madoff bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold Swiss Miss for a profit in the prison yard. Bernie Madoff monopolized hot chocolate ! Bernie Madoff made Swiss Miss so that if you wanted any, you had to go through Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff, once the Nasdaq chairman, used Bernie Madoff reputation and savvy to dupe sophisticated investors, regulators and Wall Street banks. Bernie Madoff confessed in December 2008 that Bernie Madoff was running a multi decade Ponzi scheme and that more than $ 65 billion Bernie Madoff claimed to have on hand for investors had dwindled to a few hundred million dollars from an original investment of about $ 20 billion. Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty to fraud and is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C. Fishman reportedly hosts an Audible series called.

2. Justin Paperny:

   A lot of people surrender to prison, and because they don't have the money sorted out, they're not going to shop in the commissary for a week, someone comes up and says' Hi, nice to meet you. Oh, you need some granola. Here's some coffee.'.

3. Hubert Malicote:

   We were not allowed any telephones or telegraphs — any kinds of communication that would identify where we were, one evening walking through the commissary, and there on the wall was a grass skirt.