commissariat

noun4

1. •
   The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
2. •
   (historical) A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
3. •
   A supply of food.

   • We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - " blanket " for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint. — 1887
4. •
   A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.