commissar

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: com=mis=sar

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.

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