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General staff

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staffnoun(plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
air staffnoun(military, aviation) The chief commander, flag officers, and bureau in charge of a military's air branch. The headqaurters general staff of an air force.
chief of staffnoun(government, politics) The head of any of several political departments in several nations.
état majornoun(military) The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants.
commandnounAn order to do something.
headquartersnounThe center of an organization's operations or administration.
general-in-chiefnoun(military) A military rank or title in various armed forces.
staff collegenounA college where military officers are trained in the higher branches of professional knowledge, and prepared for holding staff appointments.
general officernoun(military) An officer above the rank of colonel.
cadrenounA small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
staff corpsnoun(India, military, historical) A body of British officers serving on the permanent Indian establishment, appointed from it to do duty with native regiments, etc.
commandernounOne who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.
commanding officernounThe officer in command of, and typically having ultimate authority over, a military unit.
captain generalnoun(now historical) A commander-in-chief; the head of an armed force.
generalshipnounThe skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
staffernounA member of a staff; an employee.
top brassnoun(collective, colloquial) A group of people who are the leaders or heads of an organization.
generalnounIncluding or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
major generalnounA military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier.
flag staffnounA flag officer and his staff.

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