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quartermaster general

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Milit., in the British service, a staff-officer whose department is charged with all orders relating to the marching, embarking, disembarking, billeting, quartering, and cantoning of troops, and to encampments and camp equipage; in the United States army, a staff-officer of the rank of brigadier-general, who is at the head of the quartermaster's department.

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  • noun a staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army

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