Usually means: Instruction directing action or operation.
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  1. command: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. command: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. command: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. command: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Command, command, command: Wordnik
  6. Command, command: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. command: Wiktionary
  8. command: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. command: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. command: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Command, command: Dictionary.com
  12. command: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. command: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. COMMAND (DOS command), COMMAND, Command (Unix), Command (album), Command (computing), Command (military formation), Command (teaching style), Command, The Command (short story), The Command: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Command: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. command: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. command: Rhymezone
  18. command: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. command: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. command: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. command: Free Dictionary
  22. command: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. command: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. command: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. command: Vocabulary.com

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. command: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. command: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Command, command: CCI Computer
  3. command: Encyclopedia

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  2. command: Medical dictionary

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  4. command: Idioms

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  1. command: Urban Dictionary

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
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  3. Command: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See commandable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An order to do something.
noun:  The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
noun:  power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
noun:  A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
noun:  The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
noun:  (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
noun:  Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
noun:  (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
noun:  (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
noun:  A command performance.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
verb:  (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
verb:  (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
verb:  (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
verb:  (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To have a view (of), as from a superior position.
verb:  (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

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