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Definition of commissar in English: commissarnoun ˌkɒmɪˈsɑːˈkɑməˌsɑr 1An official of the Communist Party, especially in the former Soviet Union or present-day China, responsible for political education and organization. films that are passed by the political commissar Example sentencesExamples - Krementsov successfully portrays the scientists, their managers, the commissars and the local and national politicians.
- Committing itself to preserving and protecting US capital markets, the Federal Reserve has since the onset of Mr. Greenspan's tenure in reality acted in a manner more befitting a Soviet commissar of the Cold War era.
- This elected the party's commissars and Lenin was the president.
- In time of war the political imperatives of the commissar might become subordinated to the professional needs of the field commander, but the concession was only temporary.
- There are no aging commissars clinging on to party rule.
- The armies in which the left-wing commissars remained influential had taken the old Taiping route to Changsha and Wuhan.
- There was a Nazi party commissar in every factory to make sure that the State's will was done.
- The code officer served as secretary and the commissar as prosecutor.
- Like the pope and the Soviet commissars of old, Greenspan appears to have discovered the political usefulness of posing as infallible.
- The team was enjoying a little capitalist indulgence under the watchful eye of their commissar.
- We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
- 1.1 A head of a government department in the former Soviet Union before 1946.
Example sentencesExamples - Again, people's commissars, like tsarist ministers, were heads of departments and belonged more to the bureaucracy than to politics.
- Under the able leadership of the old Bolshevik A.P. Smirnov, the commissar of agriculture, expertise and science were privileged over politics.
- He gave his commissar of enlightenment, Anatoly V. Lunarcharsky, two weeks to work out the details.
- 1.2 A strict or prescriptive figure of authority.
Example sentencesExamples - They still have an irrational fear of the newspaper accusing them of being socialist commissars, but we are living in a different century.
- Instead the over-taxed, ripped-off and victimised motorist is forced by self-appointed traffic commissars into an ever-diminishing number of already clogged traffic arteries.
- Again, there is no sense of writing to please commissars or to follow a set political agenda; this music unmistakably comes from the heart.
- ‘Shall we have a commissioner or a commissar?’
- The reason we are opposed to this law is that it is an extension of a very bad principle that turns police officers into commissars.
Origin Early 20th century (Russian Revolution): from Russian komissar, from French commissaire, from medieval Latin commissarius (see commissary). Rhymes aargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, bête noire, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, coup d'état, de haut en bas, devoir, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, pooh-bah, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, Shangri-La, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, spar, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tar, tartare, tata, tra-la, tsar, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah Definition of commissar in US English: commissarnounˈkɑməˌsɑrˈkäməˌsär 1An official of the Communist Party, especially in the former Soviet Union or present-day China, responsible for political education and organization. Example sentencesExamples - In time of war the political imperatives of the commissar might become subordinated to the professional needs of the field commander, but the concession was only temporary.
- The armies in which the left-wing commissars remained influential had taken the old Taiping route to Changsha and Wuhan.
- There was a Nazi party commissar in every factory to make sure that the State's will was done.
- Krementsov successfully portrays the scientists, their managers, the commissars and the local and national politicians.
- This elected the party's commissars and Lenin was the president.
- The code officer served as secretary and the commissar as prosecutor.
- We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
- Like the pope and the Soviet commissars of old, Greenspan appears to have discovered the political usefulness of posing as infallible.
- There are no aging commissars clinging on to party rule.
- Committing itself to preserving and protecting US capital markets, the Federal Reserve has since the onset of Mr. Greenspan's tenure in reality acted in a manner more befitting a Soviet commissar of the Cold War era.
- The team was enjoying a little capitalist indulgence under the watchful eye of their commissar.
- 1.1 A head of a government department in the former Soviet Union before 1946.
Example sentencesExamples - Again, people's commissars, like tsarist ministers, were heads of departments and belonged more to the bureaucracy than to politics.
- He gave his commissar of enlightenment, Anatoly V. Lunarcharsky, two weeks to work out the details.
- Under the able leadership of the old Bolshevik A.P. Smirnov, the commissar of agriculture, expertise and science were privileged over politics.
- 1.2 A strict or prescriptive figure of authority.
Example sentencesExamples - ‘Shall we have a commissioner or a commissar?’
- Again, there is no sense of writing to please commissars or to follow a set political agenda; this music unmistakably comes from the heart.
- The reason we are opposed to this law is that it is an extension of a very bad principle that turns police officers into commissars.
- Instead the over-taxed, ripped-off and victimised motorist is forced by self-appointed traffic commissars into an ever-diminishing number of already clogged traffic arteries.
- They still have an irrational fear of the newspaper accusing them of being socialist commissars, but we are living in a different century.
Origin Early 20th century (Russian Revolution): from Russian komissar, from French commissaire, from medieval Latin commissarius (see commissary). |