high command

1. 1.

   the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)

   Synonymssupreme headquarters

   Broaderleadership

   NarrowerSupreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

   military

Questions about high command

What does high command mean?

high command means "the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)".

What is another word for high command?

Close synonyms include supreme headquarters. 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 high command a common word?

high command 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.