Attorney-general (n.) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. |
Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. |
Cross-staff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies. |
Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets. |
-staffs (pl. ) of Flagstaff |
General (a.) Relating to a genus or kind |
General (a.) Comprehending many species or individuals |
General (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import |
General (a.) Common to many, or the greatest number |
General (a.) Having a relation to all |
General (a.) As a whole |
General (a.) Usual |
General (a.) The whole |
General (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country |
General (a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together |
General (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule. |
General (a.) The public |
Governor general () A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him |
Lieutenant general () An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. |
Major general () An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. |
Postmasters-general (pl. ) of Postmaster-general |
Postmaster-general (n.) The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. |
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |
Solicitor-general (n.) The second law officer in the government of Great Britain |
Staffs (pl. ) of Staff |
Staffs (pl. ) of Staff |
Staff (n.) A long piece of wood |
Staff (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking |
Staff (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority |
Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed. |
Staff (n.) The round of a ladder. |
Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again |
Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written |
Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. |
Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder. |
Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major. |
Staff (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager |
States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty. |
States-general (n.) In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers. |
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 |
command post general headquarters GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
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 |
inhalation anesthetic inhalation anaesthetic inhalation general anesthetic inhalation general anaesthetic | a gas that produces general anesthesia when inhaled |
staff | a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose, he walked with the help of a wooden staff |
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) |
staff stave | (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written |
staff line | any of the horizontal marks comprising a staff |
treble clef treble staff G clef | a clef that puts the G above middle C on the second line of a staff |
staff | a rod carried as a symbol |
bread breadstuff staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command PFLP-GC | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that conducted several attacks in western Europe |
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) |
personnel department personnel office personnel staff office | the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management |
Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Chiefs | the executive agency that advises the President on military questions, composed of the chiefs of the United States Army and the United States Navy and the United States Air Force and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps |
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 |
staff faculty | the body of teachers and administrators at a school, the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university |
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 |
General Services Administration GSA | a central management agency that sets Federal policy for Federal procurement and real property management and information resources management |
office office staff | professional or clerical workers in an office, the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard |
research staff | a group of associated research workers in a university or library or laboratory |
sales staff | those in a business who are responsible for sales |
security staff | those in an organization responsible for preventing spying or theft |
service staff maintenance staff | those in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant |
general staff | military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy |
headquarters staff | military staff stationed at headquarters |
staff | personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task, the hospital has an excellent nursing staff, the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions |
half-mast half-staff | a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress |
adjutant general | a general's adjutant, chief administrative officer |
attorney general | the chief law officer of a country or state |
brigadier brigadier general | a general officer ranking below a major general |
chief of staff | the senior officer of a service of the armed forces |
Comptroller General | a United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government |
general full general | a general officer of the highest rank |
general superior general | the head of a religious order or congregation |