Another word for command
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Verb
To rise above, especially so as to afford a view of
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Noun
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Another word for command
Noun
An order
Antonyms:The power to issue orders
An area or group subject to orders
Verb
To issue an order
To have control
Synonym Study
- Charge implies the imposition of a task as a duty, trust, or responsibility
- Enjoin suggests a directing with urgent admonition he enjoined us to secrecy and sometimes implies a legal prohibition the company was enjoined from using false advertising
- Direct and instruct are both used in connection with supervision, as in business relations, instruct perhaps more often stressing explicitness of details in the directions given
- Order often stresses peremptoriness, sometimes suggesting an arbitrary exercise of authority I ordered them out of the house
- Command , when it refers to a giving of orders, implies the formal exercise of absolute authority, as by a sovereign or military leader
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