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C2

C2 is the initialism of command and control.

C2 is the c2: Abbreviation of Composition C-2.

Meaning of command and control

Noun

command and control (uncountable)

  1. The management and logistics of a military or paramilitary force.
    • "American police simply were not prepared for the challenge that they faced in terms of planning, logistics, training and police command-and-control supervision," said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit that advises departments on management and...2021 March 20, Kim Barker, Mike Baker, Ali Watkins, “In City After City, Police Completely Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    C2
  2. The management of a polity's economic and political resources by state officials themselves, rather than by more democratic or spontaneous means.
    • command-and-control economy

Synonyms of C2

Questions about C2

What is C2 the initialism of?
C2 is the initialism of command and control.

Words near C2 in the dictionary

  1. c15n
  2. C16
  3. C17
  4. C18
  5. C19
  6. C2
  7. C2A
  8. C2C
  9. c3
  10. C3CM
  11. C3G

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Adapted from Wiktionary: C2 (page history and authors); command and control (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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