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Phrases 364
- general publicThose members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.
- attorney generalThe chief legal advisor to the government, overseeing legal affairs and ensuring that laws are uniformly and justly applied.
- general electionAn election following the regular procedure to elect officers in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a region or nation.
- general-purposeFor general purposes; all-purpose.
- general managerA manager with overall responsibility for an organisation or a distinct unit of an organisation.
- general educationEducation in a number of important subjects, taught in schools.
- General SecretaryChief officer or leader of a political party or organization, especially in Communist contexts.
- General AssemblySynonym of United Nations General Assembly: One of the six principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation.
- secretary-generalAlternative spelling of Secretary General.
- general practitionerA physician who provides primary care; treating acute and chronic illnesses and providing preventive care and health education.
- general knowledgeThe wide body of information that a person acquires from education and from life, much of which may be trivial.
- general populationThe general public.
- general relativityA theory extending special relativity and uniformly accounting for gravity and accelerated frames of reference, postulating that space-time curves in the presence of mass.
- General GovernmentAn occupation zone established by Nazi Germany in parts of Poland (including areas that are now part of Ukraine).
- States GeneralAn ad hoc consultative assembly in prerevolutionary France uniting representatives of the three estates of clergy, nobles, and commons.
- director generalThe highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department.
- general anesthesiaA type of anesthesia that causes loss of sensation to the whole body, usually to the point of unconsciousness.
- general ledgerThe central accounting record of a company or organization consisting of the accounts that support the value items shown in the major financial statements.
- major generalA military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier.
- general storeA store which sells a large variety of useful things, without specializing highly in any particular type of merchandise, and which is not departmentalized.
- general strikeA coordinated work stoppage by a substantial proportion of the workers of a particular city, region or state, normally to achieve economic or political goals.
- General AmericanThe form of pronunciation of the English language considered to be typical of the United States, largely derived from a Midwestern accent.
- general staffA group of officers in charge of an army under the control of the commander-in-chief.
- governor-generalAn official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative.
- inspector generalA senior official responsible for inspecting conformance to the standards in a civil or military organization.
Compound words 20
- generallyPopularly or widely.
- generalessA female general.
- overgeneralExcessively general
- generalnessThe quality of being general, of having wide applicability.
- generalismGeneralization: lack of specialization.
- ungeneralNot general.
- nongeneralNot general
- undergeneralA subordinate general.
- ungeneralledWithout a military general.
- generalistA person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.