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ad·vis·er

or ad·vi·sor  (ăd-vī′zər)
n.
1. One that advises, such as a person or firm that offers official or professional advice to clients.
2. An educator who advises students in academic and personal matters.
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adviser

(ədˈvaɪzə) or

advisor

n
1. a person who advises
2. (Education) education a person responsible for advising students on academic matters, career guidance, etc
3. (Education) education Brit a subject specialist who advises heads of schools on current teaching methods and facilities
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.adviser - an expert who gives adviceadviser - an expert who gives advice; "an adviser helped students select their courses"; "the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala"
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
authority - an expert whose views are taken as definitive; "he is an authority on corporate law"
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
counselor, counsellor - 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)
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adviser

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adviser

or advisor
noun
One who advises another, especially officially or professionally:
Law: counsel.
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Translations
rádceporadce
rådgiver
neuvonantaja
ráîgjafi
svetovalec

adviser

advisor [ədˈvaɪzəʳ] N (in business, politics etc) → asesor(a) m/f, consejero/a m/f
legal adviserabogado/a m/f, asesor(a) m/f jurídico/a
spiritual adviserconsejero m espiritual
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adviser

advisor [ədˈvaɪzər] nconseiller/ère m/f
careers adviser → conseiller/ère m/f d'orientation
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adviser

nRatgeber(in) m(f); (professional) → Berater(in) m(f); legal adviserRechtsberater(in) m(f); spiritual advisergeistlicher Berater
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adviser

advisor [ədˈvaɪzəʳ] n (in politics) → consigliere/a; (in business) → consulente m/f
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

advice

(ədˈvais) noun
suggestions to a person about what he should do. You must seek legal advice if you want a divorce; Let me give you a piece of advice.
advise (ədˈvaiz) verb
1. to give advice to; to recommend. My lawyer advises me to buy the house.
2. (with of) to inform. This letter is to advise you of our interest in your proposal.
adˈvisable adjective
(of actions) wise. The doctor does not think it advisable for you to drink alcohol.
adˌvisaˈbility noun
adˈviser, adˈvisor noun
a person who advises.
adˈvisory adjective
giving advice. an advisory leaflet; He acted in an advisory capacity.

advice is a noun and never used in the plural: to give advice / a piece of advice / some advice .
advise is a verb: He advises us not to go .
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References in classic literature ?
The senior partner--the tried friend and adviser of our family--received me.
I went to him and represented my case very plainly, and asked if he would trouble himself to be my adviser, who was a poor friendless widow, and knew not what to do.
The London solicitor, withdrawing himself for a moment from the absorbing prospect of the rain, pointed to the places reserved for the new-comer and for the legal adviser whom he had brought with him.
The next day, the friend and legal adviser of Agnes Lockwood, Mr.
The wisest course we can now follow is to open communications at once with the executors of the deceased gentleman; addressing them through the medium of the admiral's legal adviser, in the first instance.
I had nothing to conceal from my new adviser; and I was properly described in the letter as Eustace Macallan's second wife.
"You have always been such a good adviser to us about our horses," said the stately lady, "that your recommendation would go a long way with me, and if my sister Lavinia sees no objection we will accept your offer of a trial, with thanks."
This difficulty also may be solved upon the same principle; and here too they may be right, for the power is not in the man who is member of the assembly, or council, but the assembly itself, and the council, and the people, of which each individual of the whole community are the parts, I mean as senator, adviser, or judge; for which reason it is very right, that the many should have the greatest powers in their own hands; for the people, the council, and the judges are composed of them, and the property of all these collectively is more than the property of any person or a few who fill the great offices of the state: and thus I determine these points.
In the third place, I am now the chosen adviser in whom she trusts; and what I tell her to do, she will do.
Moreover, although he had lived so long in the closest relations with the peasants, as farmer and arbitrator, and what was more, as adviser
Put the case that a woman, under such circumstances as you have mentioned, held her child concealed, and was obliged to communicate the fact to her legal adviser, on his representing to her that he must know, with an eye to the latitude of his defence, how the fact stood about that child.
Tout vient a point a celui qui sait attendre.* And there were as many advisers there as here..." he went on, returning to the subject of "advisers" which evidently occupied him.