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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
general staff
noun
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▪ Anatoly Kvashnin, chief of the general staff, to cut spending on the nuclear arsenal.
▪ It had no permanent general staff.
▪ Its rear legs have joined the general staff, who are all in discussion with their backs towards me.
▪ The general staff is unhappy and the squaddies disgruntled, but no more than that.
▪ Three days previously he had abolished the post of chief of general staff, held by Vice-Adml.
▪ Valery Manilov, deputy chief of the general staff.
▪ Yet the general staff of overseers is small, only about 40 employees, supplemented by local officials in 94 judicial districts.
Wiktionary
general staff

n. (context military English) A group of officers in charge of an army under the control of the commander-in-chief.

WordNet
general staff

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

Wikipedia
General Staff (Sweden)

The General Staff (, abbreviated Gst) was a Swedish government agency established in 1873 and was active until 1937.

Usage examples of "general staff".

Everyone on the Sector General staff knew the reason that he was the Psychology Department’.

The whitewashed office in the General Staff HQ building was on the third floor.

An entire general staff and most of the senior officers on an Army post corrupted and compromised by a single female officer.

He'd been told that years before at Fort Leavenworth's Command and General Staff School, and he'd experienced it in Saudi Arabia only the previous year, but even so, he felt the need to be out forward, close to his men, so that he could share the danger with them.

It is also true that it was the heartstone of Prussian militarism and the German General Staff that brought the world to such misery.

Having played out the campaign in war games in April before the war with most of the same commanders and staff as were to take the field in August, the Russian General Staff was gloomily conscious of the difficul­.

There, it was Winfield Scott who had recognized the value of Lee's skills and brought him to the general staff.

They'll end up like the Shah's general staff did, backs to a wall, looking at guns.

A thinking German soldier had nearly destroyed the Soviet Union -- how close it had been was something the movies never admitted, and it was hard enough to learn about it at the General Staff academies, but three times it had been devilishly close, and for some reason the gods of war had sided with Mother Russia on all three occasions.

Equally serious but less well appreciated was a more fundamental error made years earlier by the usually prescient Israeli general staff.

Since Kasper was a trained General Staff officer, this was a relatively simple task.

There, surrounded by plainclothed agents and uniformed Spetsnaz special forces commandos, was Sergey YeJsk, President Sen'kov's national security advisor, and Colonel-General Valeriy Zhurbenko, chief of the general staff.