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General Company for the Commerce of Brazil
The General Company for the Commerce of Brazil (Companhia Geral do Comércio do Brasil) was a Portuguese chartered monopoly company founded in Lisbon in 1649 to convoy fleets to Brazil.
General Confederation of Labour (Argentina)
The General Confederation of Labor (Confederación General del Trabajo, CGT) is Argentina's main trade union federation, founded in 1930, historically identified with Peronism, and known for calling general strikes.
General Conference on Weights and Measures
The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) is the supreme authority of the Metre Convention, meeting every four to six years; it established the SI in 1960.
General contractor
A general contractor, also called a main or building contractor, holds the primary contract for constructing an entire project and subcontracts specialized trades such as electrical and plumbing.
General Council of Burmese Associations
The General Council of Burmese Associations (GCBA) was a Burmese nationalist political organization formed in 1920 from the YMBA, which dominated nationalist politics through the 1920s before fragmenting.
General counsel
The general counsel (GC), or chief legal officer, is the senior attorney representing a business, reporting to executive leadership. Once a liaison role diminished in the 1940s, it has become a strategic C-suite position with board access and rising AI duties.
General Data Protection Regulation
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), formally Regulation (EU) 2016/679, is a European Union law on the protection of personal data, applicable since 25 May 2018.
General de Galerías Comerciales
General de Galerías Comerciales is a Spanish shopping-center developer founded by Tomás Olivo López in 1995, known for La Cañada in Marbella and Nevada Shopping in Granada.
General debate of the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly
General Debate of the 80th UN General Assembly, held 23–29 September 2025 in New York under the theme 'Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights', with over 140 world leaders, Brazil speaking first, and 15-minute statements.
General debate of the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly
General debate of the 81st UN General Assembly, held 22–28 September 2026 in New York under theme "Restoring trust, managing transformation"; President Khalilur Rahman; 194 speakers, 113 heads of state and government.
General Degree
General Degree is a Jamaican dancehall deejay and record producer, born Cardiff Butt in 1968 in Manchester, Jamaica, best known for the hits "Granny" and "Traffic Blocking".
General dentistry
General dentistry (Gen Dent, ISSN 0363-6771) is the bimonthly peer-reviewed clinical journal of the Academy of General Dentistry, Chicago, published since 1976, MEDLINE-indexed, with over 35,000 dentist readers.
General Dirichlet series
A general Dirichlet series is a series of the form sum a_n e^{-lambda_n s} that generalizes ordinary Dirichlet series and power series through a chosen frequency sequence.
General Dynamics
General Dynamics: Reston, Virginia-based US aerospace and defense contractor, successor to the 1899 Electric Boat Company. Four segments, $52.6B 2025 revenue, $118B backlog; builds Columbia/Virginia-class submarines, Abrams tanks, Stryker vehicles, and Gulfstream jets.
General Dynamics Ajax
The General Dynamics Ajax, also called Scout SV, is a family of 589 armored fighting vehicles in six variants built for the British Army since a 2014 contract.
General Dynamics Electric Boat
General Dynamics Electric Boat, also known as the Electric Boat Company, is an American shipbuilder in Groton, Connecticut. Founded in 1899, it launched the first nuclear warship, USS Nautilus, in 1954.
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark was a two-seat, supersonic, variable-sweep-wing tactical fighter-bomber that served the US Air Force from 1967 to 1996 and Australia's from 1973 to 2010.
General Dynamics F-111C
The General Dynamics F-111C was a long-range swing-wing strike aircraft operated by the Royal Australian Air Force from 1973 to 2010, an Australian variant of the American F-111.
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine multi-role fighter, first flown in 1974 and now built by Lockheed Martin for over two dozen countries.
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon operators
The F-16 Fighting Falcon operators are the air forces of about 29 countries flying roughly 3,100 of the multirole fighters, among the world's most widely used combat aircraft.
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon variants
The F-16 Fighting Falcon variants are the production versions and block upgrades of General Dynamics' single-engine multirole fighter, from early F-16A/B through the F-16E/F Block 60 and current Block 70/72.
General Dynamics F-16XL
The General Dynamics F-16XL was an experimental F-16 derivative with a stretched fuselage and cranked-arrow delta wing that lost to the F-15E in 1984 and later served as a NASA research aircraft.
General Dynamics–Grumman EF-111A Raven
The General Dynamics–Grumman EF-111A Raven, nicknamed the Sparkvark, was a United States Air Force electronic jamming aircraft converted from F-111A strike aircraft, serving from 1981 to 1998.
General Dynamics–Grumman F-111B
The General Dynamics–Grumman F-111B was a proposed carrier-based fleet air defense fighter for the US Navy, canceled by Congress in 1968 before any production aircraft were built.
General Educational Development
General Educational Development (GED) is a high school equivalency testing program launched in 1942 for WWII veterans, now a four-subject computer-based test scored 100–200 with a 145 passing score per subject, competing with HiSET.
General election
General election: nationwide election of a national legislature; in the UK, voters choose 650 MPs to the House of Commons every five years by first past the post, a system whose disproportionality drove reform debate after 2024.
General Electric
General Electric (GE) was an American industrial conglomerate formed in 1892, which grew from electric lighting into jet engines and medical imaging before splitting into three companies in 2024.
General Electric Catalyst
The General Electric Catalyst, originally the Advanced Turboprop (ATP), is a 1,300-shaft-horsepower turboprop engine by GE Aerospace, FAA-certified in 2025 to power the Beechcraft Denali.
General Electric CF34
The General Electric CF34 is a family of high-bypass turbofan engines from GE Aerospace, derived from the military TF34 and powering the Bombardier CRJ and Embraer E-Jet regional jets.
General Electric CF6
The General Electric CF6, or GE CF6, is a family of high-bypass turbofan engines derived from the TF39, in commercial service on widebody aircraft since 1971.