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单词 adjutant
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Definition of adjutant in English:

adjutant

noun ˈadʒʊt(ə)ntˈædʒəd(ə)nt
  • 1A military officer who acts as an administrative assistant to a senior officer.

    he eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Battalion adjutant Capt Sean Kearns said the aims of the training were to develop effective teamwork, and to help identify true leaders, as opposed to designated leaders.
    • He served with the Royal Horse Guards from 1938 until 1946 and was adjutant of the 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment between 1940 and 1944.
    • He did not speak their language and most probably spent most his time consulting with his officers and adjutants.
    • Turning to his adjutant, the colonel began issuing orders to deploy his troops.
    • About that time Sharman became the regimental adjutant, its commanding officer's principal assistant.
    • When he became the commander's adjutant at the American Flying School at Issoudun, he found it difficult to break away to learn to fly.
    • The battalion adjutant sent me to the C Company command post by Jeep.
    • During the war he rose from a battalion adjutant to an aid of a section chief of the operational department of the 5th Army Staff.
    • Kornilov seems to have had little political sense and in 1917 was influenced by his adjutant and other officers.
    • This time though, he was not only accompanied by his adjutant but by a flock of intelligence officers.
    • General Custer and his adjutant, Colonel Cooke, could be seen, lighting matches and candles in advance, trying to find the trail, which they succeeded in doing in a short time.
    • General Jackson therefore has no lack of experience of infantry soldiering, having been a platoon commander, adjutant, company commander and commanding officer in infantry battalions.
    • Twice a month, the battalion adjutant coordinated a visit from the finance company to provide soldiers with casual pay.
    • Worse yet, Lee suspected Crazy Horse would be placed under arrest and confined to the guardhouse since the adjutant's office lay adjacent to the jail.
    • Michael, who had been the youngest adjutant in the army, came ashore one day later with the 7th Battalion of the Black Watch.
    • He made over 40 parachute jumps while serving as a rifle platoon leader, battalion adjutant, and commander of a raider platoon.
    • It was this concern, states Showalter, not the reluctance of terrified adjutants to awaken a sleeping Fuhrer with bad news, that delayed Hitler's release of the panzer divisions.
    • Fox was talking with the Black Hole squadron commander, a fellow named Stock, and his adjutant, Barrel.
    • When I reported to the adjutant, I was formally discharged from the Army of the U.S. and told to report to the 78th Division headquarters.
    • Braxton is adjutant for the United Nations Command Security Battalion - Joint Security Area at Camp Bonifas, Korea.
    1. 1.1 A person's assistant or deputy.
      Hoare was his adjutant in all the talks with the government
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They are generally millionaires to begin with, and, in any case, they and their adjutants make a seamless transition from places of power to the media, the upper ranks of private enterprise and so forth.
      • The subsequent departure in the same direction of his backroom adjutants Jim and Kevin intensified the bad feeling.
  • 2A large black-and-white stork with a massive bill and a bare head and neck, found in India and SE Asia.

    Genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae: two species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In a bird census undertaken in January last year in Misamari Beel, 16,575 birds were found, which included 22 greater adjutant storks.
    • Spliced into each image is the photograph of an adjutant (a large black and white stork, one of many creatures borrowed by Muybridge from the Philadelphia Zoo).
    • But the researchers involved are quite hopeful that the simple netting technique will be a first step toward increasing the overall numbers of the greater adjutant stork.
    • The World Conservation Union classifies the greater adjutant stork as a ‘conservation-dependent’ species in great danger of extinction.
    • The man turned himself in to police in Buritam Province as they searched for him on suspicion he had killed a greater adjutant stork last week.

Derivatives

  • adjutancy

  • noun ˈadʒʊtənsiˈædʒəd(ə)nsi
    • The court clique was mainly based in the general adjutancy which was headed by the Adjutants General von Rauch and von Neumann.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Adjutant- John L. Smith of Dallas is promoted to the adjutancy of the brigade.
      • Due to deficiencies in mathematics, he had to spend an extra year at West Point, but his superb military skills gained him the cadet adjutancy his final year.
      • He later transferred to the adjutancy of Virginia's Northern Neck and Eastern Shore with the responsibility of training the Northern District's militiamen.
      • Failing to get the vacant adjutancy Tolmer decided to migrate to South Australia.

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense 'assistant, helper'): from Latin adjutant- 'being of service to', from adjutare, frequentative of adjuvare 'assist' (see adjuvant).

  • An adjutant was originally an ‘assistant, helper’; the origin is Latin adjutant- ‘being of service to’, from adjuvare ‘assist’. The term now usually describes an officer assisting a senior officer with administrative matters.

 
 

Definition of adjutant in US English:

adjutant

nounˈajəd(ə)ntˈædʒəd(ə)nt
  • 1A military officer who acts as an administrative assistant to a senior officer.

    he eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Michael, who had been the youngest adjutant in the army, came ashore one day later with the 7th Battalion of the Black Watch.
    • When I reported to the adjutant, I was formally discharged from the Army of the U.S. and told to report to the 78th Division headquarters.
    • This time though, he was not only accompanied by his adjutant but by a flock of intelligence officers.
    • Braxton is adjutant for the United Nations Command Security Battalion - Joint Security Area at Camp Bonifas, Korea.
    • Fox was talking with the Black Hole squadron commander, a fellow named Stock, and his adjutant, Barrel.
    • He served with the Royal Horse Guards from 1938 until 1946 and was adjutant of the 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment between 1940 and 1944.
    • When he became the commander's adjutant at the American Flying School at Issoudun, he found it difficult to break away to learn to fly.
    • The battalion adjutant sent me to the C Company command post by Jeep.
    • Kornilov seems to have had little political sense and in 1917 was influenced by his adjutant and other officers.
    • Turning to his adjutant, the colonel began issuing orders to deploy his troops.
    • Battalion adjutant Capt Sean Kearns said the aims of the training were to develop effective teamwork, and to help identify true leaders, as opposed to designated leaders.
    • General Custer and his adjutant, Colonel Cooke, could be seen, lighting matches and candles in advance, trying to find the trail, which they succeeded in doing in a short time.
    • General Jackson therefore has no lack of experience of infantry soldiering, having been a platoon commander, adjutant, company commander and commanding officer in infantry battalions.
    • He did not speak their language and most probably spent most his time consulting with his officers and adjutants.
    • He made over 40 parachute jumps while serving as a rifle platoon leader, battalion adjutant, and commander of a raider platoon.
    • During the war he rose from a battalion adjutant to an aid of a section chief of the operational department of the 5th Army Staff.
    • About that time Sharman became the regimental adjutant, its commanding officer's principal assistant.
    • It was this concern, states Showalter, not the reluctance of terrified adjutants to awaken a sleeping Fuhrer with bad news, that delayed Hitler's release of the panzer divisions.
    • Worse yet, Lee suspected Crazy Horse would be placed under arrest and confined to the guardhouse since the adjutant's office lay adjacent to the jail.
    • Twice a month, the battalion adjutant coordinated a visit from the finance company to provide soldiers with casual pay.
    1. 1.1 A person's assistant or deputy.
      Hoare was his adjutant in all the talks with the government
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The subsequent departure in the same direction of his backroom adjutants Jim and Kevin intensified the bad feeling.
      • They are generally millionaires to begin with, and, in any case, they and their adjutants make a seamless transition from places of power to the media, the upper ranks of private enterprise and so forth.
  • 2A large black-and-white stork with a massive bill and a bare head and neck, found in India and Southeast Asia.

    Genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae: two species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In a bird census undertaken in January last year in Misamari Beel, 16,575 birds were found, which included 22 greater adjutant storks.
    • Spliced into each image is the photograph of an adjutant (a large black and white stork, one of many creatures borrowed by Muybridge from the Philadelphia Zoo).
    • But the researchers involved are quite hopeful that the simple netting technique will be a first step toward increasing the overall numbers of the greater adjutant stork.
    • The man turned himself in to police in Buritam Province as they searched for him on suspicion he had killed a greater adjutant stork last week.
    • The World Conservation Union classifies the greater adjutant stork as a ‘conservation-dependent’ species in great danger of extinction.

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense ‘assistant, helper’): from Latin adjutant- ‘being of service to’, from adjutare, frequentative of adjuvare ‘assist’ (see adjuvant).

 
 
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