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commander in chief

  1. the supreme commander of the armed forces of a nation, as, in the U.S., the President
  2. an officer in command of all armed forces in a certain theater of war

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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