supreme command

collocation in English

meaningsofsupremeandcommand

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supreme
adjective
uk
/suːˈpriːm/us
/suːˈpriːm/
having the highest rank, level, ...
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command
noun
uk
/kəˈmɑːnd/us
/kəˈmænd/
an order, especially one given by ...
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(Definition ofsupremeandcommandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsupreme command

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The former involves the claim that a person, or political body, established as sovereign rightly exercises the "supremecommand" over a particular society.
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Has any appointment been made to thesupremecommand?
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I was saying that, broadly speaking, thesupremecommandin war goes naturally with the larger forces.
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You must have the captain of the ship must be insupremecommand.
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We ought to know who is to be insupremecommand.
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I said that there was ignorance displayed on the part of those insupremecommand.
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There has been colossal ignorance displayed, and there is appalling ignorance being displayed now by thesupremecommand.
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They will be insupremecommand, not merely administratively, in the sense of direction and control.
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The small armies of different countries in their separate national units are all willingly coming in under onesupremecommand.
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It should not be possible for their enemies to say that they are grasping thesupremecommandeverywhere—on the land, in the air, on the sea.
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That expression has been used and should be corrected, and a certain self-complacency that is rather attacking those who are in thesupremecommandat home—civil command—should be corrected.
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We have now established the position in which we have an administrator who is insupremecommand, and we have a body of law to which these people are amenable.
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The station commander is, insupremecommand.
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He hadsupremecommandand did everything.
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But thesupremecommandof the army was vested in the monarch, who had the power to take all measures regarding the whole army.
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Thesupremecommandhas erased our regiment from its records.
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To whichsupremecommandand to what sort of ineffable order would his elimination from this luminous world have been an answer?
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The government declared that the head of state can not be a serving member of the armed forces, since the government itself holdssupremecommandover the armed forces.
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