general
一般,总体,普通,一般情况
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- : of or relating to all persons or things belonging to a group or category: a general meeting of the employees.
- : of, relating to, or true of such persons or things in the main, with possible exceptions; common to most; prevalent; usual:the general mood of the people.
- : not limited to one class, field, product, service, etc.; miscellaneous: the general public; general science.
- : considering or dealing with overall characteristics, universal aspects, or important elements, especially without considering all details or specific aspects: general instructions; a general description; a general resemblance one to another.
- : not specific or definite: I could give them only a general idea of what was going on.
- : causing loss of consciousness and abolishing sensitivity to pain throughout the body.
- : having extended command or superior or chief rank: the secretary general of the United Nations; the attorney general.
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- : Military. U.S. Army and Air Force.an officer ranking above a lieutenant general and below a general of the army or general of the air force. U.S. Army.an officer of any of the five highest ranks: a brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, general, or general of the army. U.S. Marine Corps.an officer holding the highest rank in the corps. an officer in the highest, second, or third highest rank, as one ranking immediately below a field marshal in the British army.
- : Ecclesiastical. the chief official of a religious order.
- : something that is general; generality.
- : Archaic. the general public.
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The USPS lawyer told the court Thursday that the agency’s warning was not unusual and that a similar warning was issued before the 2016 general election.
In general, this is reviewing that wants to create a sport from it, that wants people to participate without knowing how to win.
The attorney general parroting the president’s false assertions about the reliability of mail-in voting.
Fewer have taken action for the general election, as the move has become increasingly partisan and subject to litigation.
The report says the data also show that LGBTQ people are 20 percent more likely than the general population to have experienced a reduction in work hours during the reopening period.
“They are hypocritical on this very issue,” Shearer said about Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and other public officials.
It also contains some clunky passages of adultery, temptations of the flesh, and general sexual awkwardness.
Closed courthouses, rogue clerks, and misleading statements from the attorney general as Florida welcomes same-sex marriage.
“We would just as soon stay away from a group that will create controversy,” the Cubs general manager Sam Bernabe told the paper.
Your general reaction runs along the lines of: “When will these geezers give it up and go for a mall walk or something?”
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.
To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.
General Lachambre, as the hero of Cavite, followed to receive the applause which was everywhere showered upon him in Spain.