command /kə-mändˈ/

1. To order
2. To exercise supreme (esp military) authority over
3. To demand
4. To have within sight, range, influence or control

1. To have chief authority
2. To govern

1. An order
2. Authority
3. Control
4. Power to overlook, influence or use
5. The thing or people under one's authority
6. A military division under separate control
7. A group of high-ranking army officers
8. Ability or understanding
9. A signal or message activating a mechanism or setting in motion a sequence of operations (esp computing)
10. A command paper

commandant /kom-ən-dantˈ or komˈ/ noun

An officer who has the command of a place or of a body of troops

commandantˈship noun

commandeerˈ transitive verb

1. To seize for military use
2. To take over for one's own use, without asking

commandˈer noun

1. A person who commands
2. An officer in the navy next in rank under a captain
3. A high-ranking police officer in charge of a district
4. A member of a higher class in an order of knighthood
5. A district administrator in religious military orders
6. The highest ranking officer in the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

commandˈership noun

commandˈery noun

The district under a commander, esp in the religious military orders

commandˈing adjective

1. Dominating, impressive, authoritative
2. Strategic

commandˈingly adverb

commandˈment noun

1. A command
2. A religious rule for living by, esp one of the Ten Commandments

commandˈo noun (pl commandˈos)

1. A unit of a special service brigade, esp the Royal Marine Corps (military)
2. A person serving in such a unit
3. An armed force of Boers (S Afr historical)

command economy noun

An economy in which all means of creating wealth and business activities are controlled by government rather than market forces

commander-in-chiefˈ noun (pl commanders-in-chief)

The officer in supreme command of an army, or of the entire forces of the state

command language noun (computing)

The language used to communicate with the operating system

command line noun (computing)

A blank line on the screen to the right of a prompt where the user types a command

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