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adjutant general

noun

, plural adjutants general.
  1. U.S. Army.
    1. the Adjutant General, the chief administrative officer of the Army.
    2. an adjutant of a unit having a general staff, usually an officer of the Adjutant General's Corps.
  2. a high, often the highest, officer of the National Guard of a state or territory.


adjutant general

noun

  1. army
    1. a member of the Army Board responsible for personnel and administrative functions
    2. a general's executive officer
  2. army the adjutant of a military unit with general staff
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Janson D. Boyles, the adjutant general of Mississippi, said the accident is under investigation and did not offer additional details.

Gen. Thomas Suelzer was appointed by Abbott to oversee the Texas National Guard and Texas State Guard as the agency’s adjutant general.

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Gen. Thomas Carden Jr., Georgia’s adjutant general, underscored those eyewitness accounts as he spoke about Story’s heroism on Monday.

Gen. Torrence Saxe, the adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard, not only approved the medals for the men, he personally handed them out at the ceremony held with a driving snow outside.

Gen. Timothy P. Williams, the adjutant general of Virginia, said in a statement.

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