commissary : Idioms & Phrases
Commissary general
- an officer in charge of some special department of army service ; as:
(a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordinace store department. Eng.(b) The commissary general of subsistence. U. S.
Webster 1913
Commissary general of subsistence
(Mil. U. S.) , the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army.