Adjutant general Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a general's adjutant; chief administrative officer
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(a) (Mil.) , the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general.(b) (Among the Jesuits) , one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.
