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brigadier
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[ noun ] (military,work) a general officer ranking below a major general
Synonyms Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)One of the local callers , a retired brigadier apparently left_over from Kipling 's tales of India , does not approve of the way Larkin gets his birds . But the brigadier dines on the birds with relish . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)He was brigadier of the club 's locker-room light infantry , and at one time or another declared war on Russia , Czechoslovakia , Yugoslavia , and China . Related terms |
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