adjutant general

American  

noun

adjutants general plural

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.

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adjutant general British  

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

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• adjutants general
  plural

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2024

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.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2023

Gen. Matthew Beevers, the Guard’s acting adjutant general.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2023

Gen. Linda L. Singh is the former adjutant general of the Maryland National Guard — the first African American and the first woman to head the Guard — which includes 29th Infantry Division units.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

The adjutant general wrote to Tom’s captain, saying that Tom had “proved an excellent officer” and that he would “regret to see him quit the service.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann