noun
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a person who advises
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education a person responsible for advising students on academic matters, career guidance, etc
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education a subject specialist who advises heads of schools on current teaching methods and facilities
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If you're an expert who gives advice or offers professional consultations, you can call yourself an adviser. You can have an adviser in many areas — he or she may also be called a consultant. A person who helps you decide what classes to take is called an academic adviser. You may also have a tax adviser to help during an audit or a career adviser to help plan your next steps after college. Whoever you take advice from, be advised that this word is sometimes spelled advisor.
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That was a mistake, said John Bellinger, former senior legal adviser at the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“We are reluctant to pay a financial adviser 2% of assets — roughly $160,000 per year.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Federal prosecutors say two men led a multistate scam, posing as a San Francisco 49ers player and adviser to steal $1.3 million from at least 26 women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The wedding with her fiance Pål Sandvid was planned for Friday but was postponed after the king died early on the same day, her political adviser confirmed to the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
She had the support and involvement of parents, teachers, friends, and an involved, knowledgeable college adviser at her high school.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Should I work with my financial institution’s advisers, or a private financial adviser?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
But since the start of their father’s second term, they have become highly active investors and advisers, also taking stakes in companies involved in tungsten mining and nuclear energy—while growing their crypto holdings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Many planning-software programs automatically set a single end age or ask advisers to enter one upfront, often built from a rule of thumb, such as 25 to 30 years after a 65-year-old retires.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Altruist, founded in 2018, is an upstart competitor to Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments in providing custodial and administrative work to independent financial advisers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
—Julius Caesar Ptolemy’s advisers knew that if Cleopatra allied with Caesar, they stood to lose all their power.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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