brigadier
noun
brig·a·dier
ˌbri-gə-ˈdir 
1
: an officer in the British army commanding a brigade and ranking immediately below a major general
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They’re joined by a pair of brigadiers from New Zealand, who were seized by Italian troops in Libya during Mussolini’s North African campaign.
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Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Oct. 2024
By the end of the war, Clarke had risen to the rank of brigadier, and he was highly praised.
—Robert Hutton, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
At each competition, a personality comes onstage and bangs the ground three times with a stick of wood called a brigadier to get everyone’s attention.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
On November 10, 1945, Allied aircraft bombed and strafed the East Indies city of Surabaya after nationalists killed a British brigadier.
—Max Hastings, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Oct. 2024
By the end of the war, Clarke had risen to the rank of brigadier, and he was highly praised.
—Robert Hutton, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
At each competition, a personality comes onstage and bangs the ground three times with a stick of wood called a brigadier to get everyone’s attention.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
On November 10, 1945, Allied aircraft bombed and strafed the East Indies city of Surabaya after nationalists killed a British brigadier.
—Max Hastings, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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“Brigadier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brigadier. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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