The general staff

Definition

general / 'dʒenrǝl / adj ၁။ အမ်ား။ အားလံုး။ ေနရာတကာ။ အေထြေထြ။ a matter of general interest/ concern ❍ a general lowering of standards ❍The announcement met with general approval. ❍ Once quite rare, calculators are now in general use (ie used by most people). ❍ a general meeting/ strike ❍ The bad weather has been fairly general (ie has affected most areas). ၂။ ေယဘုယ်။ အၾကမ္းဖ်င္း။ There is still some weakness in the legs, but her general condition is good. ❍ The opening chapter gives a general overview of the subject. ❍ The building was in a general state of disrepair. ၃။ (က) အလံုးစံု။ ေထြရာေလးပါး။ ဗဟု။ အေထြေထြ။ a general degree ❍ general knowledge ဗဟုသုတ/ sciences အေထြေထြ သိပၸံ / studies ❍ We deliberately kept the conversation/ discussion fairly general. (ခ) …ႀကီး။ အခ်ဳပ္။ သာမန္။ ေထြရာေလးပါး။ အေထြေထြ။ a general hospital ❍ the general reader ❍ the Transport and General Workers' Union. ၄။ ေယဘုယ်။ အမ်ား။ a general principle (ie one true of most cases) to which there may be several exceptions ❍ The general practice in such cases is to apply for a court order. ❍ As a general rule, the softer cheeses are less fattening. ၅။ အၾကမ္းဖ်င္း။ ေယဘုယ်။ speak/ write in general terms ❍ His description was too general to be of much use. ❍ My general impression was that it was quite good. ၆။ အႀကီးအကဲ။ အခ်ဳပ္။ အေထြေထြ။ the Attorney/ Inspector/ Governor/ Secretary General ❍ the general manager. See also POSTMASTER GENERAL n ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး။ a four-star general (ie in the US army) ❍ General Roberts. ❏ General Assembly n အေထြေထြညီလာခံ။ ❏ General Certificate of Education n ( abbr GCE ) (ေရွး) ၿဗိတိသွ်အလယ္တန္း ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအတြက္ က်င္းပေလ့ ရိွေသာ စာေမးပြဲမ်ား။ Compare A LEVEL, O LEVEL ❏ General Certificate of Secondary Education n ( abbr GCSE ) ၁၉၈၀-ျပည့္ႏွစ္ေနာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ O level GCE ႏွင့္ CSE စာေမးပြဲမ်ားေနရာတြင္ အစားထိုးက်င္းပေသာ ၿဗိတိသွ် အလယ္တန္းေက်ာင္း စာေမးပြဲမ်ား။ ❏ general election n အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ။ အေထြေထြ ေရြးခ်ယ္တင္ေျမႇာက္ပြဲ။ Compare BY- ELECTION ❏ general headquarters n [sing or pl v ] ( abbr GHQ ) (စစ္)ဌာနခ်ဳပ္။ ❏ generalist /'dʒenrǝlÇst / n အေထြေထြ ကြၽမ္းက်င္သူ။ Compare SPECIALIST ❏ general practice n [U] ( Brit ) အေထြေထြ ေရာဂါကုသမႈ။ ေဆး႐ံုျပင္ပကုသမႈ။ be/ work in general practice. ❏ general practitioner n ( abbr GP ) ( Brit ) အေထြေထြ ေရာဂါကုဆရာဝန္။ ❏ the general public n (Gp) ျပည္သူလူထု။ အမ်ားျပည္သူ။ The general public was/ were not admitted. ❏ general-purpose adj လုပ္ငန္းစံုအတြက္ အသံုးျပဳ၍ရေသာ။ a general-purpose farm vehicle. ❏ generalship /'dʒenrǝlʃÇp / n [U] တပ္ဦးေဆာင္မႈ ပညာ၊ စြမ္းရည္။ လူထုဦးေဆာင္မႈပညာ၊ စြမ္းရည္။ ❏ general staff ( often the general staff ) n (Gp) စစ္ဦးစီး(အရာရိွ)။ ❏ in general [ IDM ] ၁။ ေယဘုယ်အားျဖင့္။ အမ်ားအား ျဖင့္။ In general her work has been very good. ၂။ အၾကမ္းဖ်င္းအားျဖင့္။ I'm interested in European history in general.

Examples

1. Could you just give us a general description of the work you do?
2. Her predictions are so general that they could apply to anybody.
3. [in general terms] : We are prepared to discuss the deal in general terms
4. but the details are confidential.
5. [general idea] : I’m probably not making myself very clear
6. but you get the general idea.
7. There was general agreement at the meeting that the plan was too expensive.
8. The fighting could escalate into a more general war.
9. Family planning has now become general throughout society.
10. It’s in the general interest that we should have a well-run health service.
11. [as a general rule] : As a general rule
12. shorter sentences are easier to understand.
13. I get the general impression that they aren’t very happy.
14. He has this general attitude of superiority toward his colleagues.
15. Your general physical condition seems remarkably good.
16. A good general introduction to linguistics
17. [the general reader/viewer] : Science programmes that are accessible to the general viewer
18. [general contractor/insurer/labourer] : The building and plumbing work will be done by a general contractor.
19. [general manager/secretary] : Peter Klimt is the new European general manager.