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ad·ju·tant

(ăj′ə-tənt)

1. Abbr. Adj. or Adjt. A staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs.

2. An assistant.

3. Either of two large Asian storks (Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus) having a head and neck bare of feathers, black wings, and white underparts. Also called adjutant stork.

[From Latin adiūtāns, adiūtant-, present participle of adiūtāre, to help; see aid.]

ad′ju·tan·cy n.

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adjutant

(ˈædʒətənt)

1. (Military) an officer who acts as administrative assistant to a superior officer. Abbreviation: adjt or adj

2. (Animals) short for adjutant bird

[C17: from Latin adjūtāre to aid]

ˈadjutancy n

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ad•ju•tant

(ˈædʒ ə tənt)

n.

1. a military staff officer who assists the commanding officer.

2. an assistant.

3. adjutant stork.

[1590–1600; < Latin adjūtant-, s. of adjūtāns, present participle of adjūtāre to help, assist, frequentative of adjuvāre= ad- ad- + juvāre to help]

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Noun	1.	adjutant - an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer aide, aide-de-camp armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" adjutant general - a general's adjutant; chief administrative officer military officer, officer - any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command; "an officer is responsible for the lives of his men"
	2.	adjutant - large Indian stork with a military gait adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius stork - large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage genus Leptoptilus, Leptoptilus - adjutant birds and marabous

adjutant

noun

A person who holds a position auxiliary to another and assumes some of the superior's responsibilities:

aide, assistant, auxiliary, coadjutant, coadjutor, deputy, helper, lieutenant, second.

Translations

pobočník

Adjutant Assistent

aiutante

adjutant

адъютант подручный помощник птица-адъютант

adjutant

[ˈædʒətənt]

A. N → ayudante mf

B. CPD Adjutant General N general responsable del aparato administrativo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

adjutant

[ˈædʒʊtənt] n → adjudant mad-lib ad lib [ædˈlɪb]

vi → improviser

vt [+ lines] → improviser

n → improvisation f

adv
to speak ad-lib → improviser

adj [comedy] → improvisé(e)

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adjutant

(Mil) → Adjutant(in) m(f)

(Orn: also adjutant bird) → Indischer Marabu

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adjutant

[ˈædʒət/ənt] n (Mil) → aiutante m/f

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The Adjutant half turned his head, sheered a little in the direction of the voice, and landed stiffly on the sand-bar below the bridge.

A mangy little Jackal, who had been yapping hungrily on a low bluff, cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows to join the Adjutant.

"I heard," said the Adjutant, in a voice like a blunt saw going through a thick board--"I HEARD there was a new-born puppy in that same shoe."

"It is here," said the Adjutant, squinting over his beak at his full pouch.

"A liar, a flatterer, and a Jackal were all hatched out of the same egg," said the Adjutant to nobody in particular; for he was rather a fine sort of a liar on his own account when he took the trouble.

"When the Jackal owns he is gray, how black must the Jackal be!" muttered the Adjutant. He could not see what was coming.

But that which we have just heard is wisdom," said the Adjutant, bringing down one foot.

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There you will find the adjutant on duty," said the official.

The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went in to the Minister of War.

His fertile mind instantly suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise the adjutant and the minister.

"Take this and deliver it," said he to his adjutant, handing him the papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger.

When Prince Andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the polite adjutant. The whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed the memory of a remote event long past.