commandant
The soldiers fired as soon as their commander gave the order.指挥官一声令下，士兵们立即开火。
The commander paid tribute to the courage of his troops.司令员高度赞扬了部队官兵的勇敢无畏。
The commander has asked us to send reinforcements.指挥官要我们派增援部队。
The troops will go into action as soon as their commander gives the word.指挥官一下令，部队就会立即行动起来。

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commander | American Dictionary

commander
noun[ C ]
us/kəˈmæn·dər/
a naval officer of middle rank, above lieutenant

Examples of commander

commander
Demissie allowed his field commanders sufficient freedom of action while demanding full accountability.
The commander, after widespread pressure from the other soldiers, decided to fulfil the requests and ordered an excavation to be carried out.
The average salary per soldier is about $3,500 per month, with top helicopter pilots and country commanders earning about $7,500.
Some pundits charged that the military's complete decay, especially the cowardice and incompetence of its commanders, had precipitated the debacle of 1847.
The general staff itself consisted of officers proven as unit commanders.
Among the graduates are the military commanders who staged the 1980 coup.
To the military commanders of many of these countries, he strove to become an admired acquaintance, if not a close friend.
My informants also insisted that zonal commanders, political officials and civilians organised relations between civilians and guerrillas differently, particularly during early phases of the war.
A law passed in 1991 gave the president carte blanche in the appointment of the commander-in-chief and the removal of top officers.
However, the heavy losses their troops sustained between 1914 and 1916 disabused commanders of many of these ideas.
The rivalry between commander and commissar was particularly intense because all orders or directives had to be co-signed by the two officers.
Obviously, the commander here is unwilling to comply with his orders.
In other cases, it may be that the political representatives of a rebel movement tend to have a different background from field commanders.
Certainly the appointment of general officers and the selection of senior commanders were not viewed primarily as partisan patronage opportunities by the national administration.
This becomes most apparent in brigade commanders' and technicians' reports detailing problems at the 'work front'.
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Collocations withcommander

commander

These are words often used in combination with commander.

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base commander
The base commander or another senior war veteran would walk the plot boundaries with the settlers from either side fixing the demarcation lines.
battlefield commander
On the basis of "use them or lose them", there is an increasing temptation for a battlefield commander to use these pieces.
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