| general election | a national or state election, candidates are chosen in all constituencies |
abnegation
self-abnegation
denial self-denial selfenunciation | renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others |
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 |
reproduction
procreation
breeding
facts of life | the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring |
self-denial
self-discipline
selfontrol | the act of denying yourself, controlling your impulses |
| general verdict | an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact |
defense defence denial
demurrer | a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him, he gave evidence for the defense |
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 |
self-discipline
self-denial | the trait of practicing self discipline |
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) |
reference book
reference reference work
book of facts | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts, he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic |
| pleading | (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding |
| affirmative pleading | any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff |
alternative pleading
pleading in the alternative | a pleading that alleges facts so separate that it is difficult to determine which facts the person intends to rely on |
| defective pleading | any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency |
| special pleading | (law) a pleading that alleges new facts in avoidance of the opposing allegations |
| allegation allegement | statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove |
| special pleading | an argument that ignores all unfavorable evidence |
| denial disaffirmation | the act of asserting that something alleged is not true |
| denial | the act of refusing to comply (as with a request), it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges |
| allegation | (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law), an allegation of malpractice |
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) |
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 |
General Services Administration
GSA | a central management agency that sets Federal policy for Federal procurement and real property management and information resources management |
| general staff | military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| general manager | the highest ranking manager |
| general officer | officers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonel |