as in headquarters
the place from which a commander runs operations
a historic home that for a time served as Washington's command post during the American Revolution
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There was also confusion as the incident command post had to repeatedly be moved to a safer location because of the advancing flames.
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Tom Tapp, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Staryi’s command post outside Kharkiv looked less like a base than like a tech-industry office, with long-haired young men in T-shirts hunched over screens and sipping espresso drinks.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
By the first light of the next morning, search teams and an air ambulance went back to the command post and were able to recover the body of the victim, a 54-year-old man from Tennessee.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
The system combines a command post known as the Fire Distribution Center, Raytheon’s AN/MPQ-64F1 Sentinel 3D radar, electro-optical and infrared sensors, and multiple missile launchers equipped with AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM).
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
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Tom Tapp, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Staryi’s command post outside Kharkiv looked less like a base than like a tech-industry office, with long-haired young men in T-shirts hunched over screens and sipping espresso drinks.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
By the first light of the next morning, search teams and an air ambulance went back to the command post and were able to recover the body of the victim, a 54-year-old man from Tennessee.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
The system combines a command post known as the Fire Distribution Center, Raytheon’s AN/MPQ-64F1 Sentinel 3D radar, electro-optical and infrared sensors, and multiple missile launchers equipped with AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM).
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for command post
base
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Four people were rescued — two French and two Nepali nationals — and five Nepalis were able to make their own way back to base camp, located at 4,900 meters (16,070 feet).—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Five foreigners were injured at the base camp on Mount Yalung Ri, located at 16,070 feet.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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