Meanings
- non-native speakers' Englishcommissioner
He was sitting in a low leather chair, close to the window of the commissaris's office […]
2003, Janwillem van de Wetering, Death of a Hawker, Soho Press, →ISBN, page 192
Origin
- Dutchcommissaris
- Englishcommissaris
From Dutch commissaris.
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