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commissar
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun commissar has 1 sense
- commissar(n = noun.person) political commissar - an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit; Array is a kind of functionary, official
OXFORD DICTIONARY
commissar, n.
1 an official of the Soviet Communist Party responsible for political education and organization.
2 hist. the head of a government department in the USSR before 1946.
1 an official of the Soviet Communist Party responsible for political education and organization.
2 hist. the head of a government department in the USSR before 1946.
Etymology
Russ. komissar f. F commissaire (as COMMISSARY)
THESAURUS
commissar
Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, alderman, all-powerful ruler, archon, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, caesar, chancellor, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissary, commissionaire, commissioner, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, czar, delegate, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, driver, duce, elder, emissary, envoy, hard master, headman, herald, induna, legate, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, martinet, mayor, messenger, minister, minister of state, oligarch, oppressor, pharaoh, portreeve, reeve, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, slave driver, stickler, supervisor, syndic, tyrant, undersecretary, usurper, warden, warlord
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