adviser

ad·vis·er | \ əd-ˈvī-zər

variants: or advisor

Definition of adviser

: someone who gives advice a financial/investment adviser She was not signing on as a domestic or foreign-policy adviser …— Peggy Noonan In this meeting, Clifford, who had been a senior Truman aide and an adviser to Kennedy, used George Ball's memorandums in pleading that the war could not be won.— Sidney Blumenthal In December, she and her thesis advisor, Neal Evans, used the camera, attached to a 50-inch telescope, to look for infant stars in a giant molecular cloud in the constellation Orion.— Andrew Chaikin In a real sense, the emperor's astronomical ministers functioned like advisors in a modern president's cabinet, advising him on how best to conduct the affairs of state in a harmonious and effective manner.— Laurence A. Marschall

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What's the difference between adviser and advisor?

Adviser or advisor? It doesn't matter what your computer's spellcheck tells you, adviser and advisor are both correct. Although there is enough overlap between these two words that they are generally considered simply to be different ways to spell the same word, there are some cases in which one tends to be used more often than the other. Some people feel that advisor is more formal, and it tends to be found more often when applied to official positions, such as an advisor to a president. When referring to someone who is serving in a military role, especially when using the term as a euphemism (as when claiming that troops are actually military advisers), then adviser is somewhat more common.

Examples of adviser in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web So has the patience of some White House advisers, who see Dr. Fauci as taking shots at the president in some of his interviews with print reporters while offering extensive praise for Mr. Trump in television interviews with conservative hosts. — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, "Trump Has Given Unusual Leeway to Fauci, but Aides Say He’s Losing His Patience," 23 Mar. 2020 Trump administration officials, including Mnuchin and economic adviser Larry Kudlow, are expected to return to Capitol Hill on Friday to launch bipartisan negotiations with Senate Democrats. — Andrew Taylor, Anchorage Daily News, "McConnell proposes $1,200 payments to Americans as $1 trillion virus rescue package takes shape," 20 Mar. 2020 White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the government might take equity positions as part of corporate rescues. — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, "Oil surges 24% to best day ever, as Trump hints he’ll get involved in standoff," 19 Mar. 2020 White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow likes the idea, one of the people said. — BostonGlobe.com, "TJX to close all stores and online businesses for two weeks," 19 Mar. 2020 Shifra Goldenberg, a Smithsonian researcher who is also Venkatesh’s graduate co-adviser, has spent her career studying elephants’ social bonds. — Justin Mott, Smithsonian Magazine, "Researchers Are Learning How Asian Elephants Think—In Order to Save Them," 19 Mar. 2020 Hadi Khosroshahi, Iran’s former ambassador to the Vatican, and Ahmad Tuyserkani, an adviser to Iran’s judiciary chief, also died along with several lawmakers and a member of the country's Assembly of Experts. — Fox News, "'Virus at Iran's gates': How Tehran failed to stop outbreak," 17 Mar. 2020 The French adviser/overseer who was appointed to him as one of the mixed blessings of his newly official status was astonished at his mode of living on the Giza Plateau, and tried to persuade him to rent proper accommodations nearby. — Jimmy Maher, Ars Technica, "How alternative Egyptology and scientific archaeology were born on the Giza Plateau," 15 Mar. 2020 About a dozen officials, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and economic adviser Larry Kudlow, hashed out the details before Trump. — Jennifer Jacobs, Fortune, "U.S. stocks rebound on Trump’s promises for economic relief from coronavirus," 10 Mar. 2020

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