COMMANDERSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commandership mean? 

• COMMANDERSHIP (noun)
  The noun COMMANDERSHIP has 1 sense:

1. the position or office of commander

  Familiarity information: COMMANDERSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMANDERSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The position or office of commander

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

commandership; commandery

Hypernyms ("commandership" is a kind of...):

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

Derivation:

commander (an officer in the airforce)

commander (someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others)

commander (a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain)

commander (an officer in command of a military unit)