0 a commander in charge of all the armed forces of a country or of all the forces fighting in a particular area or operation
1 a military leader who is in charge of all the armed forces of a country or of all the forces fighting in a particular area or operation:
A letter, sir, from the commander-in-chief of all our armies, he said, saluting proudly.
Remember that I am the commander-in-chief of the army and the governor of Louisiana.
The army then had one constitutional commander-in-chief of both army and navy, and one actual commanding general, bringing all parts into real harmony.
Though commander-in-chief by the Constitution, he would have nothing to command, either by land or water until Congress raised both army and navy.
A law passed in 1991 gave the president carte blanche in the appointment of the commander-in-chief and the removal of top officers.
None of these changes was necessarily congenial to the commander-in-chief, for all that he acquiesced in, and even implemented, them.
It desires him to be primus inter pares among his colleagues and not commander-in-chief among his generals.
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