ADVISER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adviser mean? 

• ADVISER (noun)
  The noun ADVISER has 1 sense:

1. an expert who gives advice

  Familiarity information: ADVISER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVISER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expert who gives advice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adviser; advisor; consultant

Context example:

the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala

Hypernyms ("adviser" is a kind of...):

authority (an expert whose views are taken as definitive)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adviser"):

amicus curiae; friend of the court (an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest)

backroom boy; brain truster (an expert adviser involved in making important decisions but usually lacking official status)

beauty consultant (someone who gives you advice about your personal appearance)

counsellor; counselor (someone who gives advice about problems)

agricultural agent; county agent; extension agent (an advisor employed by the government to assist people in rural areas with methods of farming and home economics)

fashion consultant; fashionmonger (someone who advises you about fashionable clothing)

investment adviser; investment advisor (someone who advises others how to invest their money)

management consultant (adviser to business about efficient management practices)

media consultant; media guru (someone who advises about the use of communication media)

military adviser; military advisor (a military officer who serves as an adviser to the troops of an allied nation)

security consultant (an adviser about alarm systems to prevent burglaries)

starets (a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church)

tipster; tout (one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack))

Derivation:

advise (give advice to)

 Context examples 

I was Isa Whitney’s medical adviser, and as such I had influence over him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was very young, and had no adviser.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As her medical adviser, I cannot possibly take the responsibility of allowing anyone to see her.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meet with your financial adviser, go over your earnings, and see if any tweaks to your portfolio are necessary.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We give nutrients back to the planet, so we're imitating nature with a process that's completely natural, says Paulo Schmidt, adviser for renewable energy at Itaipu Binacional.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

If these disorders are left untreated, they can extend into adult life, thus impacting educational attainment, employment, relationships and even parenting, warned Tarun Dua, a mental health adviser at the WHO.

(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)

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

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Edmund Bertram, as you do not act yourself, you will be a disinterested adviser; and, therefore, I apply to you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Know, base-born knave, that you have dared this day to stand in the path of one whose race have been the advisers of kings and the leaders of hosts, ere ever this vile crew of Norman robbers came into the land, or such half-blood hounds as you were let loose to preach that the thief should have his booty and the honest man should sin if he strove to win back his own.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)