| 单词 | advisor |
| 释义 | advisor (once / 2954 pages) n An advisor is a person who gives advice or leads a group, like an advisor to the school yearbook club, guiding its members in putting together the pages, but not doing the work for them. There are many situations in life when you may choose to seek the guidance of an advisor: a financial advisor can help you figure out what to do with all your money when you win the lottery, a tax advisor can help you pay the taxes on that money, a career advisor can counsel you in figuring out your dream job now that money is no object, and a travel advisor can help you decide where to spend vacation. WORD FAMILYadvisor: advisors+/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/adviser: advisers/advisory: advisories/inadvisable: inadvisability, inadvisably/misadvise: misadvised, misadvising/unadvisable: unadvisably/unadvised: unadvisedly USAGE EXAMPLESThey say other Explorer scouts reported Ceballos to a deputy serving as an Explorer advisor and that started an investigation. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) One of the government’s top economic advisors compared the disruption to Hurricane Katrina’s effect on New Orleans, saying the economy would eventually rebuild. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Jabouri said he was working with an American advisor near the front line Thursday. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) n an expert who gives advice the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper adviser, 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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