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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In a statement, Paxton senior adviser Nick Maddux didn’t directly address the Dubai trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Why would an adviser bring this to a client in the first place?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Instead, he emphasised his past work abroad, in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda and as a former adviser to the anti-Moscow former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
"It's not too late," Mike Barrett, chief scientific adviser at WWF-UK, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Although I had no doubts about the young man, I asked my friend and legal adviser George Bizos to be a stand-in for me.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
With many people feeling like conventional paths to wealth are broken, copy-trading platform Dub lets everyday investors automatically mirror the portfolios of hedge-fund managers, registered advisers and even politicians.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Because advisers profit from gains but bear no downside risk, they would be incentivized to chase high returns and push investors into riskier investments.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
But his advisers had another idea to rewrite history.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The private-equity veteran says his PE-backed wealth management platform wants to support advisers over the long haul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“We are the king’s advisers, or, in more formal terms, his cabinet.”
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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