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états major

états major is the plural of état major.

Meaning of état major

Noun

état major (plural états major)

  1. 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.
    • At length seeing the strife between that body and the councils settled, and guessing what would be the issue of it, the General felt that he would lose himself by his silence, without saving Pichegru, and being particularly pressed by his chef d'état Major […]1814, Paul Svinine, Some Details concerning General Moreau, page 123

Questions about états major

What is états major the plural of?
États major is the plural of état major.

Words near états major in the dictionary

  1. Étard reaction
  2. Étard reactions
  3. état de langue
  4. état major
  5. étatisme
  6. états major
  7. Étaín
  8. étendue
  9. Étigny
  10. étincelé
  11. étiquette

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