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

Princeton's WordNet

1. commander in chief, commander-in-chief, generalissimonoun

   the officer who holds the supreme command

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

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1. • Commanding Officer

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1. List of paraphrases for "commander-in-chief":

   commander, clc

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1. Former Vice President Joe Biden:

   I laid out what I thought he should be doing. I laid out four or five specific points that I thought were necessary. I indicated that it is about taking responsibility, and being the commander-in-chief, taking on the responsibility. He asked whether or not we would not discuss the detail of what we talked about, just saying that we had a good conversation.

2. Michael McCaul:

   I do think that's a premature comment, off-the-cuff, and everybody listens to the commander-in-chief.

3. Tom Steyer:

   What were hearing here is a very long dissertation about exactly why America should be the worlds policemen, so, when were talking about Former Vice President Joe Biden role in the world and commander in chief, we have abandoned diplomacy, we dont have a strategy and we dont have allies.

4. President Barack Obama:

   I welcome all scrutiny. I fear no questions, as commander-in-chief, I make no apology for keeping this country safe and secure through the hard work of diplomacy over the easy rush to war.

5. Secretary Clinton:

   Ithink if you take his encouragement that the Russians hack into American email accounts, if you take his quite excessive praise for Putin, his absolute allegiance to a lot of Russian wish-list foreign policy positions … [ it ] leads us once again to conclude he is not temperamentally fit to be president and commander in chief.