commanding officer

Questions about commanding officer

What does commanding officer mean?

commanding officer means "an officer in command of a military unit".

What is another word for commanding officer?

Close synonyms include commandant, commander. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commanding officer a common word?

commanding officer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.