attorney general

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The chief legal advisor to the government, overseeing legal affairs and ensuring that laws are uniformly and justly applied.
    — If you do wrongfully ſeize Herford's right, call in his Letters Patents that he hath By his Atturneyes generall, to ſue[…]

词形变化

attorneys general plural attorney generals plural Attorney-General alternative attorney-general alternative

词源

From Anglo-Norman and Law French, (modern French avocat général or procureur général), hence the unusual order of adjective following noun, instead of idiomatic English *general attorney. Compare court martial, notary public, secretary general, surgeon general.
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