Adjutant
['ædʒʊt(ə)nt] or ['ædʒʊtənt]
Definition
(noun.) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
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Definition
(n.) A helper; an assistant.
(n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.
(n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
Checker: Sinclair
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. (Mil.) Assistant (of a superior officer).
Typist: Portia
Definition
n. a regimental staff officer not above the rank of major specially appointed to assist the commanding officer of a garrison or regiment—there are also adjutants of auxiliary forces of depéŒs of brigade &c.: a large species of stork or crane found in India.—ns. Ad′jutancy the office of an adjutant: assistance; Ad′jutant-gen′eral the head of his department on the general staff of the army the executive officer of the commander-in-chief.
Typed by Jewel
Examples
- But I had been quartermaster, commissary and adjutant in the field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Outside the sergeant-adjutant knelt down beside me where I lay, Name? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I had at that time but one staff officer, doing myself all the detail work usually performed by an adjutant-general. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was a clerk in the office of the Adjutant-General who supplied my deficiencies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Shortly after that some one told Captain Bliss, General Taylor's Adjutant-General, of my misfortune. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I wrote at once asking him to accept the position of assistant adjutant-general with the rank of captain, on my staff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 18th of May orders were issued by the adjutant-general for a grand review by the President and his cabinet of Sherman's and Meade's armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The adjutant, looking up from the paper, What inflicted the wounds? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This letter failed to elicit an answer from the Adjutant-General of the Army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had then roused his adjutant, turned over the battalion to him, and sent his orderly to wake up and bring his motorcyclist. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The adjutant to whom I had loaned my horse was killed, and I was designated to act in his place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I'll look up their adjutant to do your papers and it will all go much faster. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Typist: Willard