general election | a national or state election, candidates are chosen in all constituencies |
Attorney General Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
quarterback signal caller field general | (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team, quarterback is the most important position on the team |
general verdict | an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact |
buffer buffer storage buffer store | (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device, used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system |
building supply store building supply house | a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures |
chain store | one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise |
clothing store haberdashery haberdashery store mens store | a store where men's clothes are sold |
command post general headquarters GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
computer store | a store that sells computers to the small businessperson or personal user |
confectionery confectionary candy store | a confectioner's shop |
convenience store | a store selling a limited variety of food and pharmaceutical items, open long hours for the convenience of customers |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
department store emporium | a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise, commonly part of a retail chain |
discount house discount store discounter wholesale house | a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price |
florist florist shop flower store | a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold |
general anesthetic general anaesthetic | an anesthetic that anesthetizes the entire body and causes loss of consciousness |
general-purpose bomb GP bomb | a large bomb ( to , pounds that is % explosive) whose explosion creates a blast and whose metal casing creates some fragmentation effect |
grocery store grocery food market market | a marketplace where groceries are sold, the grocery store included a meat market |
hardware store ironmonger ironmonger's shop | a store selling hardware, in Great Britain they used to call a hardware store an ironmonger's shop |
inhalation anesthetic inhalation anaesthetic inhalation general anesthetic inhalation general anaesthetic | a gas that produces general anesthesia when inhaled |
magazine powder store powder magazine | a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored |
memory computer memory storage computer storage store memory board | an electronic memory device, a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached |
mercantile establishment retail store sales outlet outlet | a place of business for retailing goods |
munition ordnance ordnance store | military supplies |
package store liquor store off-licence | a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere |
push-down storage push-down store stack | a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) |
shoe shop shoe-shop shoe store | a shop where shoes are sold |
shop store | a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services, he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod |
small stores | personal items conforming to regulations that are sold aboard ship or at a naval base and charged to the person's pay |
specialty store | a store that sells only one kind of merchandise |
storehouse depot entrepot storage store | a depository for goods, storehouses were built close to the docks |
thriftshop second-hand store | a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices |
public knowledge general knowledge | knowledge that is available to anyone |
general | a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular), he discussed the general but neglected the particular |
internal medicine general medicine | the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults) |
anatomy general anatomy r | the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals |
general relativity general theory of relativity general relativity theory Einstein's general theory of relativity | a generalization of special relativity to include gravity (based on the principle of equivalence) |
rat cheese store cheese | informal names for American cheddar |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command PFLP-GC | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that conducted several attacks in western Europe |
jewelry dealer jewelry store | a firm that sells and buys jewelry |
Arminian Baptist General Baptist | group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius (who opposed the doctrine of strict predestination of the Calvinists) |
general delivery poste restante | the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it |
legislature legislative assembly legislative body general assembly law-makers | persons who make or amend or repeal laws |
States General | assembly of the estates of an entire country especially the sovereign body of the Dutch republic from th to th centuries |
Estates General | assembly of the estates of all France, last meeting in |
General Assembly | the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
Shin Bet General Security Services | the Israeli domestic counterintelligence and internal security agency, the Shin Bet also handles overall security for Israel's national airline |
Office of Inspector General OIG | the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission |