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commander

[kuh-man-der, -mahn-]

noun

  1. a person who commands.

  2. a person who exercises authority; chief officer; leader.

  3. the commissioned officer in command of a military unit.

  4. U.S. Navy.an officer ranking below a captain and above a lieutenant commander.

  5. a police officer in charge of a precinct or other unit.

  6. the chief officer of a commandery in the medieval orders of Knights Hospitalers, Knights Templars, and others.

  7. a member of one of the higher classes or ranks in certain modern fraternal orders, as in the Knights Templars.



commander

/ əˈɑːԻə /

noun

  1. an officer in command of a military formation or operation

  2. a naval commissioned rank junior to captain but senior to lieutenant commander

  3. the second in command of larger British warships

  4. someone who holds authority

  5. a high-ranking member of some knightly or fraternal orders

  6. an officer responsible for a district of the Metropolitan Police in London

  7. history the administrator of a house, priory, or landed estate of a medieval religious order

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • commandership noun
  • subcommander noun
  • subcommandership noun
  • undercommander noun
  • dzˈԻˌ󾱱 noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of commander1

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French comandere, equivalent to comand ( er ) to command + -ere < Latin -ō- -ator
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According to the testimony from the captured Russians in Kurashov's unit, their senior commander issued an order directly before the assault that no prisoners should be taken.

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Israel's "Operation Rising Lion" began early Friday with the assassination of senior Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists.

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Israel has struck dozens of targets across Iran, damaging the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and assassinating top military commanders and nuclear scientists in Tehran.

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It later released a map of the sites it said it had hit which included nuclear facilities, missile facilities and radar defences, as well as scientists and military commanders.

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Israel struck dozens of targets, including nuclear facilities, military sites and private residences, across Iran on Friday, killing a number of senior military commanders in what it called "Operation Rising Lion".

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