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commande: order (request for some product or service)
commandement: command, order; authority, power to command, to give orders; command; commander; commandment; rule or law imposed by a superior power
commander: to order (tell someone to do something); to order (ask for a product)
commanderie: commandery, commandry
commandeur: commander
commanditaire: a sponsor; a silent partner, a sleeping partner; principal, instigator, employer (person who orders a crime, person who hires someone to commit a crime in their stead)
commandite: a type of limited partnership in France, Quebec, and elsewhere; its full legal name is a société en commandite (SCS)
commanditer: to commission, finance, sponsor
commandité: a partner in a société en commandite
commando: commando (troop, trooper)
comme: as (in the role of, by way of); like, as; such as; how; because, as, since
comme c'est pas permis: like crazy, like you wouldn't believe, like nobody's business, as can be, as they come
comme ci comme ça: comme ci comme ça, so-so
comme ci, comme ça: alternative spelling of comme ci comme ça
comme d'hab: as usual, per yoozh
comme de colin-tampon: completely
comme des petits pains: like hot cakes (used to describe something which is selling quickly)
comme des sardines: packed like sardines
comme deux gouttes d'eau: like two peas in a pod; exactly alike
comme dirait l'autre: as they say
comme harengs en caque: packed like sardines
comme il faut: properly (the way it should be done); properly, really (intensifier)
comme il faut: proper, decent
comme il se doit: as expected
comme jamais: like never before
comme les doigts de la main: like two peas in a pod (very close)
comme marée en carême: opportunely
comme même: misconstruction of quand même
comme on dit: as the saying goes
comme on fait son lit on se couche: as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
comme on fait son lit, on se couche: alternative spelling of comme on fait son lit on se couche
comme par enchantement: as if by magic
comme par hasard: what do you know; what a coincidence; surprise surprise
comme par magie: as if by magic
comme pas deux: like no one else, like you've never seen before; as can be
comme pas possible: like crazy, like you wouldn't believe, like nobody's business, as can be
comme pas un: like no other
comme personne: like nobody else, like no other, better than anyone
comme pour: as if
comme prévu: according to plan
comme qui dirait: so to speak, as it were, how shall I put it
comme quoi: it goes to show (this recent fact or result confirms what we always thought)
comme s'il en pleuvait: in plenty, aplenty, galore, abundantly, in abundance
comme si: as if; as though (as to suggest that)
comme si c'était hier: vividly
comme si de rien: ellipsis of comme si de rien n'était
comme si de rien n'était: as if it were nothing, as if nothing had happened
comme si sa vie en dépendait: like one's life depended on it, as if there were no tomorrow
comme suit: as follows
comme sur des roulettes: like a charm, smoothly, swimmingly, without a hitch
comme tout: very, extremely, as all get-out
comme un cheveu sur la soupe: out of the blue (unexpectedly)
comme un chien dans un jeu de quilles: very suddenly and incongruously
comme un coq en pâte: in clover, very comfortably, with one's every need catered to, pampered
comme un dingue: like crazy
comme un dératé: Very fast; Very hard and for extended periods of time
comme un manche: very clumsily, very badly, very poorly, like shit
comme un pet sur une toile cirée: like grease through a goose, as fast as greased lightning (very rapidly)
comme un pied: very clumsily, very badly, very poorly, like shit
comme un rat mort: very much, to death