commando
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7.2
- noun
- /kəˈmændoʊ/
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comando
- He served as a commando in the special forces, known for their quick and strategic operations.
- a commando raid
- a commando unit
- commando-style
This voice that I'm, I'm saying is saying all of my commando training was for this moment.
- This voice that I'm, I'm saying is saying all of my commando training was for this moment.
- You know, look, I've seen, I've seen commandos blow a door and go through that door as rounds are slinging at us.
- And then it was just the matter of figuring out which one of the American branches had the closest thing to what I thought was a British commando.
- So he was an ex commando the the hijacker.
- We work with their commandos from Formosa you need.
- Where is Abe and where is the Afghan commando Sergeant major?
- That whole commando world really was spoke to me.
- He's actually an SD commando, but he goes on this rant.
- And the crazy thing is I interviewed dozens of commandos, KKA, Afghan special forces.
- So I went out there twice with Four Two Commando.
- We saw that Bruno Kreutz von Mara has organized a squad of commandos and they try to assassinate Wegner and interestingly to go me.
Examples
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The military deployed a commando unit to execute a surprise raid behind enemy lines.
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Austin and Vanessa lead fifteen commandos into the chamber and gunfire breaks out.
Fiction book (1997) -
No woman is going to last one week in a commando training course.
Fiction book (1997) -
This guy Chick here... was an Air Force commando for six years.
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We had supporting Special forces commandos that were with us.
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Where are the other commandos located?
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Meanwhile, their Navy would launch a series of commando raids on the coast of the Peloponnesus.
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In 1972, a crack commando unit... was sent to prison by a military court... for a crime they didn't commit.
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The elite paratroop commando division was used in May and lost its commander and 21 tanks.
Academic text (1990) -
We can achieve a tremendous amount with swift and surgical air strikes and commando raids by our elite units.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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6.3
A soldier trained to attack quickly and secretly behind enemy lines
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5.1
A soldier in the United States Army trained for secret, dangerous missions
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Commando comes from an Afrikaans/Dutch word kommando that named a small fighting group in South Africa, and that word comes from command meaning 'to order'. So a commando today is a specially trained soldier or small unit sent to carry out quick, surprise attacks.