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Adviser

Definition: Adviser

Adviser

Noun

1. An expert who gives advice.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adviser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Adviser

DomainDefinitions

General

Person appointed to give specialist or expert information on a particular event, or generally. Source: European Union. (references)

Occupations

Coordinates variety of activities for residents of boarding school, college fraternity or sorority house, care and treatment institution, children's home, or similar establishment: Orders supplies and determines need for maintenance, repairs, and furnishings. Assigns rooms, assists in planning recreational activities, and supervises work and study programs. Counsels residents in identifying and resolving social or other problems. Compiles records of daily activities of residents. Chaperones group-sponsored trips and social functions. Ascertains need for and secures services of physician. Answers telephone and sorts and distributes mail. May escort individuals on trips outside establishment for shopping or to obtain medical or dental services. May hire and supervise activities of housekeeping personnel. May plan menus. (references)

Public Administration

One that gives advice. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Adviser

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

ADVISER

EnglishAdded value information services on European research resultsN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Adviser

Synonyms: advisor (n), consultant (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Adviser

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Advice

Adviser, prompter; counsel, counselor; monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator; teacher.

Director

Guiding star; (guidance); adviser; guide; (information); pilot; helmsman; steersman, steermate; wire-puller.

Lawyer

Noun: lawyer, attorney, legal counsel; counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law; jurist, legist, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult, legal adviser, advocate; barrister, barrister at law; King's or Queen's counsel; K.C.; Q.C.; silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher; tubman, judge.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Adviser

English words defined with "adviser": Advisership, amicus curiae, approachbackroom boy, brain trusterconfidential adviser-advisee relationDehorterfriend of the courthouse physicianinvestment adviserjudge advocate, Judge-Advocate Generalmanagement consultantPrivileged communicationsecurity consultant, special, starets. (references)
Specialty definitions using "adviser": AhithophelCardinaldirector, recreation, DISTRICT ADVISERFEED AND FARM MANAGEMENT ADVISER, FOREIGN-STUDENT ADVISERPriest, PRIVATE-BRANCH-EXCHANGE SERVICE ADVISER, PUBLIC ADVISERRedder, retainer feeSUPERINTENDENT, RECREATIONUnited States Department Of Agriculture. (references)

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Modern Usage: Adviser

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Then we just take it for ourselves! We-no listen! We can rule! I can be the king, Gallagher can be the toilet fixer, Chantlis can be the Spiritual Adviser and Pettengail-- has passed out. Ok (Red Planet; writing credit: Chuck Pfarrer)

It must be hard for a political adviser to understand this, but I'm merely a civil servant. (Yes, Minister; writing credit: Semyon Lungin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Adviser

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering (reference)

  • Kaplan Newsweek Graduate School Admissions Adviser (Graduate School Admissions Adviser) (reference)

  • Law School Admissions Adviser (Law School Admissions Adviser) (reference)

  • Medical School Admissions Adviser (Medical School Admissions Adviser) (reference)

  • Newsweek Graduate School Admissions Adviser 2000: Selection, Admissions, Financial Aid (Graduate School Admissions Adviser) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Adviser

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Adviser

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Ibn Sa'ud, the Sultan of Saudi Arabia with Sir Percy Cox, the English adviser of Arabian Affairs, seated outside of tent.Credit: Library of Congress.

Paul Jordon, regional information adviser, region seven.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: Adviser

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

A Delegate may by notice in writing addressed to the President appoint one of his advisers to act as his deputy, and the adviser, while so acting, shall be allowed to speak and vote. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Adviser

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Mr. Knightley was a sort of general friend and adviser, and she knew Mr. Elton looked up to him.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

In this manner, the mysterious old Roger Chillingworth became the medical adviser of the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Adviser

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

ICON Group is a Registered Investment Adviser. (references)

DH serves as the Government's Health Adviser, is responsible for administering healthcare policies and statutory functions, and manages the administration of 63 general outpatient clinics. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

In October 2000, the Chief Minister of Kelantan, who is also the spiritual adviser for the opposition Islamic party PAS, was banned from speaking at a mosque in Selangor. (references)

Peru

Videotapes of bribes being paid to key figures in the media by Fujimori's intelligence adviser Montesinos confirmed that the Fujimori administration paid five of the six commercial television stations, much of the tabloid press, and at least one serious newspaper to run pro-Fujimori articles and editorials. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

Nearly all major companies retain a legal adviser. (references)

Human Rights

Guinea-Bissau

The President replaced Nosolini with his former political adviser, Mario Lopes. (references)

Colombia

The Government has an extensive human rights apparatus, which includes the office of the President's Adviser for Human Rights, headed by Vice President Gustavo Bell. (references)

Paraguay

The office of the Attorney General's Special Adviser on Human Rights has been extremely active in pursuing justice against human rights abusers from the Stroessner regime. (references)

Political Economy

Cote D'ivoire

Houphout-Boigny's successor, President Henri Konan Bédié, knew the United States from his time as Cte d'Ivoire's Ambassador to Washington and later as special adviser to the President of the World Bank. (references)

Political Rights

Iran

President Khatami appointed a woman to serve as Presidential Adviser for Women's Affairs. (references)

Trade

Ireland

In addition, it acts as adviser and banker to the Irish government. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Adviser

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Representative John Kasich

Well, I don't know, Bob. But as I told a Bush adviser yesterday, if the Republican Party is not capable of selling tax cuts, then we've got to take another look at the Republican Party. We can do it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Adviser

"Adviser" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.15% of the time. "Adviser" is used about 1,410 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.15%1,3985,736
Noun (proper)0.85%12101,599
                    Total100.00%1,410N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Adviser

Expressions using "adviser": domestic science adviser economic adviser investment adviser legal adviser military adviser national security adviser policy adviser political adviser psychic adviser spiritual adviser technical adviser. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "adviser": adviser-led.

Ending with "adviser": Minister-adviser.

Containing "adviser": confidential adviser-advisee relation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Adviser

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

financial adviser

72

adviser

61

las vegas adviser

57

adviser mortgage resindential uk

44

investment adviser

40

independent financial adviser

32

content adviser

22

adviser trip

22

adviser business new zealand

12

adviser council economic

10

adviser belarc

10

adviser bush karl

9

adviser audio

8

registered investment adviser

8

adviser mortgage residential

8

adviser property

7

adviser honolulu

7

tax adviser

6

adviser national security

6

mortgage adviser

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Adviser

Language Translations for "adviser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

konsulent (consultant), këshilltar (councillor, counsellor, counselor, mentor, monitor). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مستشار (chancellor, consultant, council, councillor, counselor, mentor), ‏المرشد (conductor, instructor, leader, monitor, pole star), ‏المشير, ‏الناصح (advisor, mentor, uncle). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съветник (advisor, aide, councillor, counsellor, doctor, guide, monitor), консултант (advisor, consultant). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

顧問 (consultant), 指導教授 (advising professor), 参谋 (advisor). (various references)

   

Czech

  

poradce (consultant, counsellor, counselor). (various references)

   

Danish

  

raadgiver (advisor), rådgiver (advisor, counsellor), Konsulent (advisor, analyst, counsellor, systems analyst). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

adviseur (advisor, animal consultant, breeding adviser, breeding consultant, consultant, counsellor, husbandry adviser, livestock consultant), raadsman (advisor, counsel, counsellor, intercessor, lawyer, legal counsel, solicitor), Raadadviseur, consulent (advisor, animal consultant, breeding adviser, breeding consultant, consultant, counsellor, husbandry adviser, livestock consultant). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مشاور (Consultant, Counselor), رهنمون (Guideline), رایزن (Consultant, Counselor), راهنما (Clue, Conductor, Guidance, Guide, Guideline, Key, Keyword, Landmark, Leader, Lodestar, Pacemaker, Polestar, Signal, Usher). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

neuvonantaja (counsellor), neuvoja (advisory agent, advisory officer, consultant, consulting officer, counsellor, extension officer), konsulentti (counsellor). (various references)

   

French

  

Conseiller (admonish, advise, advisor, give advise). (various references)

   

German

  

Berater (advisers, advisor, aide, consultant, consulter, counsellor, counselor), Ratgeber (counsellor, counselor, mentor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σύμβουλοσ (advisor, consultant, consulter, councillor, counsellor, counselor, counsilor, director), σύμβουλος (advisor, consultant, counsellor). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יועץ (consultant, counsellor). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tanácsadó (advisor, advisory, advisory board, aide, consultant, consultative, consulting, counselor, mentor). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

adpisir, penasehat (counsellor, mentor), pembimbing (guide), pembicara (discussant, lawyer, speaker). (various references)

   

Italian

  

consigliere (advice, advisor, consultant, council, councillor, councilor, counsellor, counselor, mentor, monitor). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

補佐 (aid, assistance, assistant, counselor, help), 顧問 (consultant). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そう "やく (counselor), ほさ (aid, assistance, assistant, counselor, help), か""くしゃ (counselor), "も" (ancient writing, classical literature, consultant, fine pattern), アドバイザー , じょ""しゃ (counsellor), じょ'"しゃ (counsellor). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

문관 (advisor). (various references)

   

Manx

  

fer coyrlee (council, counsellor), coyrleyder (consultant), coyrlagh (consultant, consultative, counsellor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adviseray

   

Portuguese

  

Conselheiro (advisor, councillor, counsellor, counselor, mentor). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sfetnic (councillor), sfãtuitor (counsel, counsellor, friend, monitor), povãţuitor (guide), consultant (consultant, consulting, consultor, counsel), consilier (consultant, councillor, counsellor), cãlãuzã (fugleman, guide, guide book). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

консультант (advisor, advisories, consultant, counselor). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

savetodavac, savetnik (counsellor, counselor, informer), konsultant (consultant). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

consejero (advisor, consultant, councillor, councilor, counsellor, counselor, executive director, member of the board of directors), asesor (advisor, advisory, assessor, consultant, counsellor, counselor, moderator, prudential, puisne). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rådgivare (advisor, counsellor, mentor). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

akıl hocası (master, mentor), müşavir (advisor, counsellor, counselor, syndic), danışman öğretmen (advisor), danışman (advisor, consultant, consulting, counsel, counsellor, counselor, guidance conselor, guide, mentor, supervisor). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

maslahatзy. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

радник (advisor, councillor, counsellor, counselor, monitor), консультант (advisor, assessor, consultant). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người khuyên bảo (advisor), người chỉ bảo (advisor), cố vấn (advisor, advisory, consultant, consulting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Adviser

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

consiliari, consiliarii, consiliariis, consiliario, consiliariorum, consiliarios, consiliarium, consiliarius, consiliatores, consiliatoribus, consiliatorum. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

doctor. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Adviser

Derivations

Words beginning with "adviser": advisers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Adviser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adavise, adevise, adiver, admisit, advase, advis, advisari, advisary, advize, Alvise, Ardview, avier, Kadviserg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Adviser"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "adviser" (pronounced advī"zer)
6a d v ī" z eradvisor.
4-v ī" z erdivisor.
3-ī" z ergeyser, incisor, kaiser, miser, riser, sizer, wiser.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Adviser

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-r-s-v"

-1 letter: advise, aiders, aivers, davies, deairs, divers, drives, irades, raised, redias, resaid, varied, varies, visaed, visard.

-2 letters: aider, aides, aired, aiver, arise, aside, avers, dares, deair, dears, devas, divas, diver, dives, drave, dries, drive, ideas, irade, raids, raise, rased, raved, raves, reads, redia, resid, rides, rived, rives, saved, saver, serai, sired, siver, vairs, viers, vires, vised.

-3 letters: aide, aids, airs, ares, arid, arse, aver, aves, avid, dais, dare, dear, deva, devs, dies, dire, diva, dive, ears, eras, idea, ides, ired, ires, rads, raid, rase, rave, read, reds, reis, revs, rias, ride, rids, rise, rive, sade, sadi, said, sard, sari, save, sear, sera, side, sire, vair, vars, vase, vera, vide, vied, vier, vies, visa, vise.

-4 letters: ads, aid, air, ais, are, ars, ave, dev, die, dis, ear, eds, era, ers, ids, ire, rad, ras, red, rei, res, rev, ria, rid, sad, sae, sea, sei, ser, sir, sri, var, vas, via, vie, vis.

-5 letters: ad, ae, ai, ar, as, de, ed, er, es, id, is, re, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-r-s-v"
 

+1 letter: advisers, avodires, avoiders, invaders, ravished.

 

+2 letters: adversity, advertise, deprivals, derivates, deviators, driveways, duratives, graveside, maravedis, reinvades, shivareed, valorised, vaporised, varicosed, varisized, varnished, vineyards.

 

+3 letters: adenovirus, adsorptive, adverbials, advertised, advertiser, advertises, advertizes, advisories, cabdrivers, daredevils, disapprove, disfavored, drawknives, driveshaft, enravished, gravesides, larvicides, misaverred, ovaritides, overplaids, privatised, riverwards, stravaiged, travestied, unravished, verdancies, vulgarised.

 

+4 letters: adventurism, adventurist, adversarial, adversaries, adversative, adversities, advertisers, advertising, animadverts, cadaverines, depravities, derivations, derivatives, derivatizes, disapproved, disapprover, disapproves, disprovable, distractive, divaricates, driveshafts, drivetrains, duumvirates, eviscerated, gravidities, maidservant, overpraised, revalidates, revitalised, semidwarves, trivialised, unvarnished, vineyardist, vivandieres, weaverbirds.

 

+5 letters: adenoviruses, adventurisms, adventurists, adversatives, advertencies, advertisings, advertorials, deactivators, decemvirates, deliverances, denervations, depravations, deprivations, desiderative, deverbatives, disapprovers, discoverable, disseverance, ditransitive, diversionary, dorsiventral, maidservants, misadventure, overstrained, unadvertised, veratridines, vineyardists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Adviser


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 64 76 69 73 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    ...-    ..    ...    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100100 01110110 01101001 01110011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 0076 0069 0073 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35708875857184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Spoken
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Abbreviations
18. Acronyms
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Orthography
23. Bibliography


  

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