general staff

1. 1.

   military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy

   Broaderstaff

   military

Questions about general staff

What does general staff mean?

general staff means "military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy".

Is general staff a common word?

general staff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.