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  • noun A commander who is subordinate in rank.

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ commander

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Examples

  • In Nuevo Casas Grandes, the “armed commandos,” as they were called by the Mexican media, set fire to the house of a police subcommander and shot him to death as he ran outside.

    The Fall of Mexico 2009

  • In Nuevo Casas Grandes, the “armed commandos,” as they were called by the Mexican media, set fire to the house of a police subcommander and shot him to death as he ran outside.

    The Fall of Mexico 2009

  • In Nuevo Casas Grandes, the “armed commandos,” as they were called by the Mexican media, set fire to the house of a police subcommander and shot him to death as he ran outside.

    The Fall of Mexico 2009

  • No Afghan insurgent can be sure he's safe, says the smuggler, a former Taliban subcommander.

    With Friends Like These… 2010

  • Soon afterward, U.S. Marines drove the subcommander and his fighters out of the district — at least temporarily.

    Not Your Father’s Taliban 2010

  • Representatives from some of the region's most important insurgent groups, including the Afghan Taliban, were there: Afghan leader Sirajuddin Haqqani sent a delegate, the tribal commander says, and a South Waziristan subcommander, asking not to be named for safety's sake, confirms that his leader, Mullah Nazir, was represented as well.

    Pakistani Taliban Boasts Creating Problems for Local Militants 2010

  • "Some elders went too far," says Bari Khan, a subcommander in his early 20s in Ghazni province.

    Not Your Father’s Taliban 2010

  • The 25-year-old Taliban tells how Mullah Juma Khan, 26, a fellow subcommander in a nearby Afghan district, began to suspect a merchant of passing information to the Americans.

    Not Your Father’s Taliban 2010

  • The principal says late last year he was arrested by a young subcommander for no discernible crime other than being a schoolmaster.

    Not Your Father’s Taliban 2010

  • Salahuddin Ayubi, a subcommander of Jalaluddin Haqqani, claimed responsibility for the attack, adding that two police vehicles were destroyed in the attack.

    Militants Attack Central Kabul One Day Before Elections 2009

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