Definition of "subcommander" []

• A commander who is subordinate in rank. (noun)

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• "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."
• ""Some elders went too far," says Bari Khan, a subcommander in his early 20s in Ghazni province."
• "Soon afterward, U.S. Marines drove the subcommander and his fighters out of the district — at least temporarily."