high command
noun
1
: the supreme headquarters of a military force
2
: the highest leaders in an organization
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Yet Xi probably sees such suffering among the high command as having a salutary effect.
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Jonathan A. Czin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2025
The shock of the atomic bombs was the critical factor in breaking the deadlock among the Japanese high command.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2025
Yet just three years later, most of the Nazi high command would be in the dock at Nuremberg, charged with the most outrageous crimes of the century.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Junior officers have plotted coups in the past (in 1970, 1980, and during the 1990s), but none of them were successful because the top commanders remained loyal to the high command.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2023
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Jonathan A. Czin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2025
The shock of the atomic bombs was the critical factor in breaking the deadlock among the Japanese high command.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2025
Yet just three years later, most of the Nazi high command would be in the dock at Nuremberg, charged with the most outrageous crimes of the century.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Junior officers have plotted coups in the past (in 1970, 1980, and during the 1990s), but none of them were successful because the top commanders remained loyal to the high command.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2023
See All Example Sentences for high command
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“High command.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20command. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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