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commissariat (n.)
c. 1600, in Scottish law, "commissary court," from French
commissariat
, from Medieval Latin
*commissariatus
, from
commissarius
(see
commissary
). Military use is from 1779. In reference to the USSR, "ministry," from 1918.
