Definition & Meaning | English word AGENT-GENERAL

Definitions of AGENT-GENERAL

1. Alternative form of agent general.

Examples of Using AGENT-GENERAL in a Sentence

• His predecessor in the post was a relation of Jacques Benigne Bossuet, and it is thought that the transaction of the change was the cause of La Bruyère's introduction to the great orator, Bossuet, who, from the date of his own preceptorship of the Dauphin, was a kind of agent-general for tutorships in the royal family, and, in 1684, who introduced La Bruyère to the household of Louis, Prince of Condé (1621–1686).
• Like everyone else, he had suffered heavy losses from the land boom and its aftereffects, and in August 1892 he left for England and accepted the secretaryship to the agent-general for Victoria.
• In 1953, the Liberal government of Ross McLarty appointed Dimmitt to the position of agent-general (the government's representative in London), which meant he had to resign from parliament.
• That same year, the government asked the colony's agent-general in London, William Pember Reeves, to search Europe for such a balneologist to run New Zealand's thermal baths.

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