political commissar

1. 1.

   an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit

   Synonymscommissar

   Broaderofficial

Questions about political commissar

What does political commissar mean?

political commissar means "an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit".

What is another word for political commissar?

Close synonyms include commissar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is political commissar a common word?

political commissar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.