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US
/kəˈmændɝ/
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[ 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.’
- 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
- Neither the eparch nor the garrison commander presumed to quarrel with Rhavas or to shout out Stylianos 'name. Bridge of the Separator
- He is reportedly dissatisified with the performance of U.S. regional military commanders-in-chief.
- On the ‘digital’ battlefield there is a real likelihood that brigade commanders will talk directly to sergeants or corporals commanding sections and that intermediate officers will be sidelined.