quartermaster general

noun

Military.

plural

quartermasters general, quartermaster generals 

1. a general in command of the Quartermaster Corps.

Word History and Origins

Origin of quartermaster general¹

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

Munir is currently serving as the army's quartermaster general, in charge of supplies.

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An 1866 quartermaster general’s report says the cemetery “contains a number of soldiers graves, said to be not less than 75” that are “not distinguishable from citizens graves.”

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His mother was a homemaker, and his father, Wodehouse Richardson, served as a quartermaster general during the Boer War, co-founded the Army & Navy department store chain and was knighted by King Edward VII.

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John’s father, a former quartermaster general in the Boer War in South Africa, helped found the Army and Navy Store, a London-based department store chain with branches in Bombay and Calcutta.

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Without his performance as quartermaster general of the U.S.

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