HIGH COMMAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high command mean? 

• HIGH COMMAND (noun)
  The noun HIGH COMMAND has 1 sense:

1. the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)

  Familiarity information: HIGH COMMAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH COMMAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

high command; supreme headquarters

Hypernyms ("high command" is a kind of...):

leaders; leadership (the body of people who lead a group)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high command"):

SHAPE; Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (the supreme headquarters that advises NATO on military matters and oversees all aspects of the Allied Command Europe)