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US
/kəˈmændɝ/
]
[ UK /kəmˈɑːndɐ/ ]
[ UK /kəmˈɑːndɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others
- an officer in the airforce
- a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain
- an officer in command of a military unit
How To Use commander In A Sentence
- Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
- Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
- Promoted to Commander/05 (22 October 2009), currently in refresher flight training (jets) with Training Wing JOSEPH ANTHONY ROSSI
- Her propeller shaft was fouled and she was dragging her anchor, so Endurance, some 25 miles away when the call went out, closed in at top speed to act as on-scene commander.
- But the abbreviation for Commander is actualy Cdr, while the abbreviation for Commodore is Cmdre - Cmdr is a completely fabricated short form. Archive 2007-06-01
- Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
- The commander-in-chief was given 36 hours to secure a withdrawal of his troops from the combat zone.
- On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
- The commander countermanded the reinforcements to the battlefield.
- The congested, hypertense crossing point of the River Jordan, between Jordan "proper" and the Israeli-held West Bank, is to this day known as the Allenby Bridge, after T.E. Lawrence's commander. The Perils of Partition
