What's the difference between canteen and commissary?
Canteen
Definition:
(n.) A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink.
(n.) The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.
Example Sentences:
(1) 93% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 84%) felt that involuntary smoking should be restricted in the workplace and 99% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 97%) felt that it should be restricted in the canteens.
(2) I will not be alone in watching closely to see what difference – if any – it makes to have a (highly competent) woman at the helm of an organisation which remains, with its notorious “canteen culture”, still a boys’ club in so many ways.
(3) When he came to the canteen at the Old Vic, people were desperately scanning their brains to think of something intellectual to talk to him about.
(4) Across town in Le Central restaurant, nicknamed Hollande's canteen, the atmosphere is jovial.
(5) From the period of October 1987 to January 1988, 9 samples were taken from 16 workers in company canteens situated in the Sienna area.
(6) But, desperate to court Le Pen's voters, he later seized on it, stressing in rousing speeches at campaign rallies that halal meat options should not be available in state school canteens.
(7) A quarter of these epidemics developed in works canteens and half the affected subjects were ill.
(8) The Ritz hotel in Barcelona is renamed Hotel Gastronómico No 1 and serves as a workers’ canteen.
(9) Each movie group – Gone Girl, The Imitation Game, Selma, etc – sits defensively together, sort of like high-school cliques in the canteen of an 80s teen movie, and those proud, defiant smiles they managed to maintain for TV have long since wobbled away a bit.
(10) The inspection showed that the hygienic condition of 14 canteens (40%) was unsatisfactory.
(11) The present paper deals with a method that permits to evaluate the nutritional structure of all-day canteen feeding by means of a computer program based on the dishes actually delivered by the canteen.
(12) Fastforward to 2005, and the Gate Gourmet workforce – again, mostly female and Asian – were dismissed after assembling in the canteen to question the company's employment policies and then refusing to go back to work.
(13) During the rebellion by Tory MPs on the European Union bill last week, Lib Dem ministers sat eating a canteen supper while they waited for the vote.
(14) I think Sanders will win Iowa and New Hampshire.” Clinton will kickstart what she hopes is her year of destiny (and which will also include a second grandchild) at a school canteen in Concord, New Hampshire, on Sunday, followed by visits to Iowa – where the first Democratic caucus is held next month – and Las Vegas.
(15) But the estates he inherited from his father in 1979 when he became the 6th Duke of Westminster certainly furnished the equivalent of many canteens of silverware.
(16) The number of pupils receiving help with food and similar issues had increased threefold in a year, Goddard said, with increasing numbers staying almost until the school canteen closed at 8.30pm to stay warm or eat.
(17) "The government has to be much more nanny state in terms of policing the food industry, taxing snack food, taxing fizzy drinks, banning fizzy drinks, banning sugary foods, and not just in school dinners but also in work canteens and hospital food.
(18) The Ofsted report says that boys and girls eat lunch in separate sittings, although it puts this down to the small size of the canteen.
(19) In one incident, students poured water on the twins in the canteen.
(20) I was born and raised here, and until recently I had never heard of a problem with different school meal options for Muslim and Jewish children who don’t eat pork.” Back in Chilly-Mazarin, Anouar Briki, who works in construction and was born in Nice, is pondering what to tell his two daughters, aged six and nine, about how to deal with the end of pork-free meals in the canteen.
Commissary
Definition:
(n.) One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
(n.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
(n.) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters.
(n.) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.
Example Sentences:
(1) During two of the intervention procedures used in the additive design, the patient could earn coupon booklets from the hospital commissary if his daily average urine sugar levels were less than a set criterion.
(2) The development of a more suitable, flexible instrumentation, in collaboration with the Atomic Energy Commissary.
(3) The troops in the first action of the American Revolution in Massachusetts were well provisioned through the efforts of Joseph Trumbull of Connecticut, whom the Second Continental Congress appointed Commissary General, at General Washingtion's request.
(4) In the second brigade, consisting of the disabled and elderly, there was a woman who ended up getting such bad frostbite after a day in the lokalka they had to amputate her fingers and one of her feet); "lose hygiene privileges" (the prisoner is forbidden to wash themselves or use the bathroom); "lose commissary and tea-room privileges" (the prisoner is forbidden to eat their own food, or drink beverages).
(5) India retaliated against US diplomats with measures that included revoking diplomat ID cards that brought certain privileges, demanding to know the salaries paid to Indian staff in US embassy households and withdrawing import licences that allowed the commissary at the US embassy to import alcohol and food.
(6) In the Alcatraz commissary, on two simple teak racks, Ai has provided pre-addressed postcards for the 5,000 tourists a day who traipse through the prison, inviting them to write to the crusaders languishing in jails like this one, or the one he found himself in just three years ago.
(7) Mendoza and other detainees interviewed at Tacoma complained about the size and quality of the meals they are served, plus prices for food at the centre’s commissary.