"command" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kəˈmɑːnd/ [UK], /kəˈmænd/ [US] Audio: en-us-command.ogg [US] Forms: command [singular], commands [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. Command, is the power to control people or things.
    Sense id: simple-command-en-noun-OLqo4Jf6
  2. Command is the people or place that orders come from.
    Sense id: simple-command-en-noun--pvmO9em
  3. A command is a direction for a computer to do something.
    Sense id: simple-command-en-noun-w7fFKsRB
  4. A command is an order that somebody do something or that something happen.
    Sense id: simple-command-en-noun-UghCkOpR
  5. If you have command of something, you understand it well.
    Sense id: simple-command-en-noun-VsITOyIb

Verb

IPA: /kəˈmɑːnd/ [UK], /kəˈmænd/ [US] Audio: en-us-command.ogg [US] Forms: command [canonical], commands [third-person, singular], commanded [past], commanded [past, participle], commanding [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you command someone to do something, you tell them to do it because you have power over them.
    Sense id: simple-command-en-verb-wYEe2xku
  2. If you command attention, respect, etc., you get it because you should get it.
    Sense id: simple-command-en-verb-vlXjhfdC
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          "text": "The information moved from the soldiers up the chain of command right to the president."
        },
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          "text": "Machine-gun fire swept through the general's command post."
        },
        {
          "text": "With their centralized command structure, it's hard to believe that it could be an accidental action."
        },
        {
          "text": "We'll look at the problems they face and the military options at their command."
        },
        {
          "text": "These women reject the idea that they are under their husband's command."
        },
        {
          "text": "We have not leader. Somebody needs to take command and get us moving."
        },
        {
          "text": "Saddam Hussein was in command of one of the world's biggest military machines."
        }
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          "text": "This operation was planned carefully from the central command."
        },
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          "text": "Reporters recently spoke to leaders at the Army's Strategic Defense Command."
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A complicated command like \"COPY: *. *B:PRNT1 i\" could take some time for the computer to complete."
        }
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          "text": "He gave the command to attack."
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          "text": "He has an excellent command of both French and Spanish."
        }
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          "text": "The amazing power of weather commands respect and fear."
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          "text": "The wines from 1989 from that area today command high prices."
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        },
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        },
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          "text": "With their centralized command structure, it's hard to believe that it could be an accidental action."
        },
        {
          "text": "We'll look at the problems they face and the military options at their command."
        },
        {
          "text": "These women reject the idea that they are under their husband's command."
        },
        {
          "text": "We have not leader. Somebody needs to take command and get us moving."
        },
        {
          "text": "Saddam Hussein was in command of one of the world's biggest military machines."
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      ]
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      "ipa": "/kəˈmɑːnd/",
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    {
      "ipa": "/kəˈmænd/",
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          "text": "He'd first joined the Army in 1969 and commanded a unit in Vietnam."
        },
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          "text": "\"That's quite enough of that. Stop it right now,\" commanded his teacher."
        }
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        },
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        },
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          "text": "The wines from 1989 from that area today command high prices."
        }
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