commandership

American  

[kuh-man-der-ship] / kəˈmæn dərˌʃɪp /

noun

• commanderships
  plural

1. the rank or tenure of a commander.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• commanderships
  plural

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Example Sentences

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commandership commanderships

Canceled by King George VI was the honorary commandership of the Order of the British Empire awarded in 1929 to Norwegian Major Vidkun Quisling.

From Time Magazine Archive

So true and impressive is this that reflection upon it makes the last year of Lee's commandership seem peculiarly glorious.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders by John Lord

Obliged to dismount, Hako was about to rush at his antagonist, when Eiko, as quick as lightning, tore from his breast the badge of commandership and galloped away.

From Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki

Admiral Darling was now so busy, and so continually called from home by the duties of his commandership, that he could not fairly be expected to call upon Mr. Caryl Carne.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

For his valour on the latter occasion he received the rank of general of brigade and the commandership of the Legion of Honour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

And to effect this was the one object of all his many commanderships and his long political course; as he thought this the only means to make them a match for their foreign enemies.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

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