Definition of "governor-general" []

• A governor of a large territory who has other subordinate governors under his or her jurisdiction. (noun)

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• "I have spent a good deal of time and energy over the years attempting to explain to quizzical American citizens that the term governor-general has nothing to do with military rank, but now I find that the matter is not quite so simple."
• "I suppose it is a mark of just how far we have come that I distinctly recall a serious discussion about the absurdity of the need for an Australian passport, when, after all, Fiji was until recently British, and, besides, had a governor-general, and all mod-cons."
• "So unfortunately we cannot absolutely assert that the civilian title of governor-general is entirely unrelated to that of major-general, and in this sense the last Governor-General, His Excellency Major-General Michael Jeffery, A.C.,"