abbreviation

• Commander-in-Chief.

  ‘On 12 December 1944 he became allied C.-in-C..’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I'm sure you realize that being CinC. places tremendous demands on anyone holding that position.’
  • ‘Not long after he became CINC, he proposed a ­six-­point strategic program to the President's Secretary of Defense.’
  • ‘He was then appointed C-in-C Fifteenth Army Group, which launched the Sicilian campaign in July 1943’
  • ‘Stalin named himself Supreme C-in-C’

  Synonyms

  leader, head, headman, boss, chief, director, manager, overseer, controller, master