US Attorney General
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- noun
- /juːˈɛs əˈtɜrnɪ dʒəˈnɛrəl/
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Fiscal General de EE. UU.
- As the US Attorney General, he plays a key role in shaping the legal landscape of the country.
- former US Attorney General
- Assistant US Attorney
- new US Attorney General
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Examples
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The US Attorney General addressed the nation about new policies aimed at combating gun violence.
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Let the AG, the US Attorney, and the Chief Judge handle it.
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In 1918, the US Attorney General condemned The Finished Mystery.
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Obama used executive privilege to cover this up and keep Eric Holder, US Attorney General, from going to jail.
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Obama used executive privilege to cover this up and keep Eric Holder, US Attorney General, from going to jail.
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Colorado's governor, meanwhile, hopes to talk to US Attorney General Eric Holder as soon as this week, according to the Denver Post.
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Albert Riccardo, Assistant US Attorney, a passenger in this cab, and I'm reporting you to the DMV.
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(The Seattle chapter released a statement urging the FBI and the US Attorney to end the raids and drop the grand jury subpoenas.)
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Despite the overall inadequacies of home rule, the present system of picking judges and the fact that it is the US Attorney's office that serves as local prosecutor yield a certain quality of the DC criminal justice system that has historically been lacking in other local services.
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In 2004, the then-US Attorney for the District of Maryland famously wrote in a leaked email that he wanted three front-page indictments by November of that year.
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Synonyms
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A person who leads the United States Department of Justice and is the main lawyer for the federal government
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The top lawyer in the United States government who leads the Department of Justice and enforces federal law
Surface Forms
Morphology
The words 'US' and 'attorney' make clear this is a national legal figure and suggest a high-ranking lawyer, but the word 'general' here is not the usual military noun; it functions as a postpositive modifier meaning 'chief' or 'general in scope.' Because that grammatical/semantic shift may not be obvious to a B1 learner without exposure or cross-linguistic analogy, the expression is partially predictable but not fully transparent.
Etymology
US Attorney General comes from a time when attorney meant a legal 'representative' and general meant 'for all' or the main person in charge. So it pictures one lawyer who speaks for the whole country, which is why the title means the 'chief legal officer' of the United States.