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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Lord Mann, the UK government's independent adviser on antisemitism, called for a "clear, calm and methodical" approach to tackling anti-Jewish hatred, warning that governments which avoidede their responsibilities contributed to the problem.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Last year, a friend of a Morgan Stanley financial adviser applied for a roughly $2.8 million mortgage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The late Republican senator, who was a top adviser to Trump on foreign affairs, is being laid to rest in South Carolina tomorrow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Nothing rash, and nobody here is your financial adviser.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
“That and the summer should give you a good push,” his adviser had said.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Financial advisers drive referrals to the private bank’s mortgage unit and get a fee, expressed as a percentage of the total dollar amount of the mortgage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Some mortgage bankers have worried about upsetting financial advisers, central to the bank’s growth plans, who were close to senior executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed one of his senior advisers, Robert Howden, to replace her.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Usually, advisers see these strategies work out to happy endings.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Shackleton and his most trusted advisers frequently debated their options and kept themselves ready to move.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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