What's the difference between commissariat and victuals?
Commissariat
Definition:
(n.) The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.
(n.) The body of officers charged with such service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thereafter, followed a series of four reorganizations of the commissariat by the Congress-each disastrously conceived-which brought no relief to the ill-fed soldiers, whose physical condition progressively worsened.
(2) There were conflicts, hesitations and contradictions within the avant garde as well, and their supporter in the government was Anatoly Lunacharsky at the People’s Commissariat for Education, where Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, worked as well.
(3) They’re coping somehow so far,” said Ivan Mišković, a spokesman for Serbia’s commissariat for refugees and migration, of the aid workers and authorities on Serbia’s southern border.
(4) The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Sheila Fitzpatrick A riveting account of the institution that implemented the cultural and educational policies of the revolution after 1917.
(5) A spokeswoman in the Calais police commissariat said she was unable to comment on the allegations of harsh treatment made by the children.
(6) Once an icon of British gentility (as perceived by non-Brits), the commissariat of trench coats , scarves, and other country squire accoutrements, Burberry had lost its cachet by sticking to a taste-numbing repetition.
(7) This work has received decisive assistance from numerous institutions, in particular the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Rockefeller Foundation of New York, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health of the United States, the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, the Commissariat á l'Energie Atomique, and the Depsilonlepsilongation Gepsilonnepsilonrale alpha la Recherche Scientifique et Technique.
(8) On 2 January 1946, just before his departure, De Gaulle appointed Monnet to head the Commissariat Général du Plan.
(9) At the end of his first year at Cambridge, he threw up his place at Caius college to join the hospital commissariat in the Crimea.
(10) A total of 104 men working for the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, all volunteers, were randomly placed into two groups.
(11) "There was a tendency to try to export and there was a general feeling of support for Israel," Andre Finkelstein, a former deputy commissioner at France's Atomic Energy Commissariat and deputy director general at the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Avner Cohen, an Israeli-American nuclear historian.
Victuals
Definition:
(n. pl.) Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.
Example Sentences:
(1) He became chair of the Society of Licensed Victuallers, recognised for his fundraising work.
(2) The claim for a zero tolerance for victuals and ready-to-use baby foods is corroborated.
(3) A hypothesis is framed about which any influences of the nutrition may cause variations of the cranium, but concerning physiological data, kinds of nutrition and special victuals' ingredients cannot still be mentioned.
(4) West and east Indian trade founded merchant dynasties, but also created a hinterland of ship builders, outfitters, victuallers, warehousemen, carriers and wholesalers.
(5) Data were collected from the stores accounts of six ships over a period of 32,354 man-victualling-days.
(6) In 1849 C. D. Schroff established therein the Institute for Experimental Pharmacology of Vienna University and around 1864 A. E. Vogl began his outstanding microscopic investigations of pharmacologically relevant plants and of victuals.