commissar
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈkɒmɪsɑːr/
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comisario político
- As a political commissar, she was responsible for ensuring that the soldiers adhered to party principles.
- political commissar
- People’s Commissar
You can climb the greasy pole by being a commissar, by enforcing language codes.
- You can climb the greasy pole by being a commissar, by enforcing language codes.
- And in fact, Reagan had a great joke about this where there were two, where there were two commissars, I think in Moscow.
Examples
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- I'm a commissar now.
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During the Second World War, when I was serving in the army, I heard speeches by political commissars.
Fiction book (1993) -
What kind of a commissar are you?
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And you... you are the Commissar, representative of the party.
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Monsieur Commissar, my wife had nothing to do with this.
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But, um, in Soviet Union, I am commissar in charge of cruise vessels.
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He was nothing more than a political commissar.
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I didn't know you'd been appointed commissar of public morality.
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You can climb the greasy pole by being a commissar, by enforcing language codes.
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David King's recent book The Commissar Vanishes documents the utter systematicity of photographic manipulation in the construction of Soviet history.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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9.9
A person who works for a political party or large organization and follows orders without question
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9.6
An official from the Communist Party who checks a military unit's loyalty
Compounds
- Offensive
A person in an organisation who forces others to follow a political idea, often used as an insult
Surface Forms
Etymology
Commissar comes from the Russian word komissar, which comes from an older European word meaning 'to entrust' and is like the English word commission. So a commissar was someone 'entrusted' with political education and control in a Communist government.