Synonyms for commander in chief
com·man·der in chief

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1. commander in chief, generalissimonoun

   the officer who holds the supreme command

   "in the U.S. the president is the commander in chief"

   Synonyms:
   generalissimo

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1. Hillary Clinton:

   I started the campaign knowing that I would have to work extra hard to make women and men feel comfortable with the idea of a woman president, it doesn't fit into the -- the stereotypes we all carry around in our head. And a lot of the sexism and the misogyny was in service of these attitudes. Like, you know,' We really don't want a woman commander in chief.'.

2. Myint Naing:

   Whether or not these cases will be solved depends on whether the NLD has a good relationship with the military commander-in-chief.

3. Waitman Wade Beorn:

   I think he's sending a message, soldiers do what the leadership tells them, or signals to them, is most important to them. And I think its clear in this case you have the President, who also functions as the commander-in-chief, sending a message that he disagrees with decades, even centuries of legal precedent in the law of war.

4. Steve King:

   It's appalling to think of the hubris of Donald Trump, it's time to be adults about this. Can you imagine a commander-in-chief, a president of the United States throwing tantrums like this for four or eight years?

5. Glenn McFarlane:

   Just thinking it over, thinking it over, who's going to be the best to be commander-in-chief, who is going to be the best to lead us later on, you know the flash-in-the-pan politicians, we don't need them.