英语词汇“geographer general”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

geographer general n. North American (now historical) a post carrying overall responsibility for geographic and cartographic matters in a country or region.Cf. general adj. 8a.

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1785 Boston Mag. Dec. 474/1 They would not permit the Geographer-General, and the Assistant Surveyors of the United States, to enter upon the execution of their business, which occasions their return.

1834 Obituary 22 Nov. in Institution Soc. Cincinnati (1851) 102 In the year 1778, Col. De Witt was appointed Geographer-General to the army, in the place of Col. Erskine.

1908 Bull. Univ. Wisconsin No. 352. 92 The officer in charge of surveys was to be the surveyor-general (replacing the former geographer-general), with a corps of deputy surveyors.

2006 J. Hamblin & D. Finch Diva & Rancher ii. 39 Once back at the ranch, he wrote to the geographer general in Ottawa, describing the terrain of this part of the west that to date was unmapped.

单词	geographer general
释义	> as lemmas geographer general geographer general n. North American (now historical) a post carrying overall responsibility for geographic and cartographic matters in a country or region.Cf. general adj. 8a. ΚΠ 1785 Boston Mag. Dec. 474/1 They would not permit the Geographer-General, and the Assistant Surveyors of the United States, to enter upon the execution of their business, which occasions their return. 1834 Obituary 22 Nov. in Institution Soc. Cincinnati (1851) 102 In the year 1778, Col. De Witt was appointed Geographer-General to the army, in the place of Col. Erskine. 1908 Bull. Univ. Wisconsin No. 352. 92 The officer in charge of surveys was to be the surveyor-general (replacing the former geographer-general), with a corps of deputy surveyors. 2006 J. Hamblin & D. Finch Diva & Rancher ii. 39 Once back at the ranch, he wrote to the geographer general in Ottawa, describing the terrain of this part of the west that to date was unmapped. extracted from geographern. < as lemmas
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