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GENERAL STAFF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does general staff mean?
• GENERAL STAFF (noun)
The noun GENERAL STAFF has 1 sense:
1. military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy
Familiarity information: GENERAL STAFF used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("general staff" is a kind of...):
staff (personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
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