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   commander in chief
   [n] - the officer who holds the supreme command
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   commander in chief
   generalissimo noun the officer who holds the supreme command; `in the U.S. the president is the commander in chief`
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   Commander-in-chief
   A commander-in-chief is the person exercising supreme command authority of a nation`s military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practi...
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