judge advocate general

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   the senior legal advisor to a branch of the military

   Broadercommissioned officer

   military · law

Questions about judge advocate general

What does judge advocate general mean?

judge advocate general means "the senior legal advisor to a branch of the military".

Is judge advocate general a common word?

judge advocate general 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.