(politics, derogatory) Dictatorial authoritarianism.

(South Africa, military, historical) Title for the officer in charge of a commando or district.

A shell, a command line interface; usually used with the definite article. / (computing) The text prompt presented to the user in a command line interface.

plural of command line

plural of Wing Commander

(economics, politics) An economic system in which activity is directly controlled by the government and the means of production are publicly owned.

plural of commander in chief

The Commandment that states that killing a human being is a sin; commonly recited as "You shall not murder", "You shall not kill" or "Thou shalt not kill".

Synonym of take control, especially in situations involving a role with formal command over a group of people.

(syntax) The relationship between a node in a parse tree and its sibling nodes (usually meaning the children of the first branching node that dominates the node) and all the sibling nodes' children.