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high command

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high command
n.
1. The supreme headquarters of a military force.
2. The most powerful leaders of an organization.
high command
n
(Military) the commander-in-chief and senior officers of a nation's armed forces
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Noun1.high commandhigh command - the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)
supreme headquarters
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, SHAPE - the supreme headquarters that advises NATO on military matters and oversees all aspects of the Allied Command Europe
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
leaders, leadership - the body of people who lead a group; "the national leadership adopted his plan"
Translations
high command n (Mil) → stato maggiore
high command n (Mil) → stato maggiore


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Often they rose to positions of high command, so it was not the note of authority in the fellow's voice that seemed remarkable; but something else--a quality that was indefinable, yet as distinct as it was familiar.
The Chessmen of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
She had seen him first months since when he had entered the headquarters of the German high command in East Africa and carried off the luckless Major Schneider, of whose fate no hint had ever reached the German officers; and she had seen him again upon that occasion when he had rescued her from the clutches of the lion and, after explaining to her that he had recognized her in the British camp, had made her prisoner.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
It is impossible to decide whether there is really any truth in this account of Nennius, or whether it springs wholly from the imagination of the Britons, attempting to solace themselves for their national overthrow; but it allows us to believe if we choose that sometime in the early sixth century there was a British leader of the name of Arthur, who by military genius rose to high command and for a while beat back the Saxon hordes.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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