Command and Hand over

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Command verb - To keep, control, or experience as one's own.

Usage example: local government does not command the resources that are needed to respond to such a huge disaster

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Hand over is an antonym for command.

Hand over verb - To give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress.

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Command is an antonym for hand over.

Collins attempts to hand over command of the rebellion to de Valera, bu de Valera declines, instead travelling to America to raise recognition of the Irish Republic as well as money from Washington.

Source: Grand Unified Timeline / The World Wars

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