GENERALSHIP

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith.

2.
n.

Military skill in a general officer or commander.

3.
n.

Fig.: Leadership; management. An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. Sterne.


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