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In natural English speech, "commanding" appears in contexts such as: "I want to see him or her. And my commanding officer's policy was he was the one who was going to go up and catch flak for whatever we had done. And then he'd come back and tell us, OK, here's what you could do better.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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IPA/kəˈmændɪŋ/

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I want to see him or her.

And my commanding officer's policy was he was the one who was going to go up and catch flak for whatever we had done.

And then he'd come back and tell us, OK, here's what you could do better.

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adjective

Tending to give commands, authoritarian.

“Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.”

adjective

Impressively dominant; very good and impressive.

“a commanding structure”

verb

present participle and gerund of command

Synonyms:bossy imposing

noun

The act of giving a command.

“God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.”

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