单词 | adviser |
释义 | adviser (once / 311 pages) n 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. WORD FAMILYadviser: advisers+/advisable: advisability, advisabler, advisablest, advisably, inadvisable, unadvisable/advise: advisable, advised, advisee, advisement, adviser, advises, advising, advisor, advisory, misadvise/advised: advisedly, ill-advised, unadvised/advisee: advisees/advisement: advisements/advisor: advisors/advisory: advisories/inadvisable: inadvisability, inadvisably/misadvise: misadvised, misadvising/unadvisable: unadvisably/unadvised: unadvisedly USAGE EXAMPLESBut that’s not the way the world works anymore, the adviser explained. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) The writer is a senior adviser at the Atlantic Council. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) The Kalianovs heard about the problem because Chase’s wife is their financial adviser. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) n an expert who gives advice an adviser helped students select their courses Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper advisor, consultant Nestor (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy Grigori Efimovich RasputinSiberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II; was assassinated by Russian noblemen who feared that his debauchery would weaken the monarchy (1872-1916) 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 trusteran expert adviser involved in making important decisions but usually lacking official status beauty consultantsomeone who gives you advice about your personal appearance counsellor, counselorsomeone who gives advice about problems agricultural agent, county agent, extension agentan advisor employed by the government to assist people in rural areas with methods of farming and home economics fashion consultant, fashionmongersomeone who advises you about fashionable clothing investment adviser, investment advisorsomeone who advises others how to invest their money management consultantadviser to business about efficient management practices media consultant, media gurusomeone who advises about the use of communication media military adviser, military advisora military officer who serves as an adviser to the troops of an allied nation security consultantan adviser about alarm systems to prevent burglaries staretsa religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church tipster, toutone who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) Dutch unclea counselor who admonishes frankly and sternly racetrack toutsomeone who offers advice about betting on horses (either to influence the odds or in the hope of sharing some of the winnings) authority an expert whose views are taken as definitive |
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