Synonyms of adjutant

adjutant

noun

ˈa-jə-tənt 

as in assistant

a person who helps a more skilled person

the senator's adjutants and aides always arrive ahead of him on the campaign trail

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assistant
• aide
• deputy
• apprentice
• aid
• lieutenant
• sidekick
• coadjutor
• adjunct
• helper
• servant
• helpmate
• mate
• maid
• employee
• helpmeet
• subordinate
• attendant
• worker
• auxiliary
• maidservant
• handmaiden
• laborer
• help
• scullion
• underling
• hireling
• right hand
• legman
• aide-de-camp
• hand
• swamper
• girl Friday
• man Friday
• gal Friday

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of adjutant

In the months since fellow senior Legion executives suspended Abrahamson without pay from his statewide adjutant job in April, a number of the roughly 8,000 members in Idaho have called for a change in leadership. — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2024

Whereas until recently political elites had a degree of decision-making power, the war has made them into the executors of Putin’s will, mere adjutants to the generalissimo. — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024

His first innovation, suggested by the director and Factory adjutant Paul Morrissey, was to add the German chanteuse Nico to the Velvets’ lineup. — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023

In postwar court documents he is referred to as Arājs’s adjutant. — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023