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adviser

or ad·vi·sor

[ ad-vahy-zer ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

adviser

/ ədˈvaɪzə /

a person who advises
education a person responsible for advising students on academic matters, career guidance, etc
education a subject specialist who advises heads of schools on current teaching methods and facilities

Origin of adviser¹

First recorded in 1605–15; advise + -er ¹

On the following Monday, it was arranged by my Resident Adviser that I would meet with the dean of students, Robert Canevari.

Whitaker is not only a close friend of the president and the first lady but of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, as well.

General Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the first President Bush, shuffled head-down through the mob.

He also appointed a very experienced intelligence chief, Ajit Doval as his national security adviser.

But when the information was brought up with the White House, senior adviser Karl Rove told them to “let these sleeping dogs lie.”

His services as witness and expert adviser were in great request by railway companies.

Henry Burns smiled most affably, as though the squire had been his dearest friend and adviser.

He lived in a house belonging to her, the hotel de Soissons; she made him her supreme adviser.

The sheik, panic-struck, came in and made submission, revealing the treachery of the ranee's paramour and adviser.

In this latter work his success was very moderate, but he became unconsciously an intimate friend and adviser of the Czar.

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