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• C.B.E.
  C.B.E.

  abbreviation

  Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
• CBE
  CBE

  abbreviation

  Commander of the (Order of the) British Empire

C.B.E.

American  

abbreviation

1. Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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CBE British  

abbreviation

1. Commander of the (Order of the) British Empire

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Example Sentences

David Bowie turned down an award naming him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or C.B.E., in 2000 because, he explained, “I seriously don’t know what it’s for.”

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2023

But he has met her son, when Morgan was awarded a C.B.E., this year, for services to drama.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2016

The artist Lucian Freud did not want a C.B.E. in 1977.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012

Chin up, this singularly lovely woman, wife of smart Air Group-Captain Christopher Lloyd Courtney, C.B.E.,

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the French officials was M. Le Sous-Intendant Bezombes, C.B.E., who is the administrative head of the French Government services dealing with their own war graves.

From The King's Pilgrimage by Fox, Frank, Sir