1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. command post

Find the word definition

What is "command post"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
command post
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A command post was operating in Rukaramu.
▪ My office became the temporary command post.
▪ Regrouping at the Colonel's command post began around 0300 hours, 90 minutes after landing.
▪ The demonic forces have their command post in the basement offices of the psychology department.
▪ The government forces concentrated their efforts on the destruction of the Mbari command post.
▪ The living room was fitted as a command post with radio and large-scale maps on the wall.
▪ The occasional sound of small-arms fire punctuated the lunchtime action at the company command post.
Wiktionary
command post

n. (context military English) The headquarters of a given unit; the operational base of a unit's commanding officer.

WordNet
command post

n. military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces [syn: general headquarters, GHQ]

Usage examples of "command post".

When the platoon halted for the night, the platoon sergeant would join us in the center of the defensive perimeter and form the command post.

But there's also a very dangerous gap between my command post here and Major Kurz's 11 Battalion.

If however, you wish to go alone and report to the nearest Italian command post that we are Partisans and have designs on a certain Italian intelligence major, then you are by all means free to do so.

One of the company commanders called the command post and in a shaky voice whispered that the enemy was approaching from the south in three columns, The Rangers had two hours yet to remain in Gafsa and had no wish to be caught in a trap.

Garret and her husband Earl had just taken a break when they noticed federal agents arriving to set up a command post.

If he returned to the command post, it was a walk of twenty kilometers.

The two men exchanged salutes and entered a car for the ride to the local command post, and an intelligence update.

All in all, the destruction of this brigade took less than three minutes, leaving the colonel who'd been in command to stand at his command post with openmouthed horror at the loss of the three hundred soldiers he'd been training for over a year for this very moment.

Also outside the building but below ground was the new command post, completed in 1989.

Two minutes later, before people had even strapped in, the pilot of the National Emergency Airborne Command Post - Kneecap - firewalled his engines and roared down runway, Zero-One Left.