united states attorney general

1. 1.

   the person who holds the position of secretary of the Justice Department

   “Edmund Randolph was the first Attorney General, appointed by President Washington”

   SynonymsAttorney GeneralUS Attorney General

   Broadersecretary

Questions about united states attorney general

What does united states attorney general mean?

united states attorney general means "the person who holds the position of secretary of the Justice Department".

What is another word for united states attorney general?

Close synonyms include Attorney General, US Attorney General. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is united states attorney general a common word?

united states attorney 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.