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n. A staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs.

n. An assistant.

n. See marabou.

n. A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.

n. An assistant.

n. A bird in the genus Leptoptilos of the stork family Ciconiidae.

adj. The noun used as a modifier (e.g. adjutant officer).

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.

Helping; assistant. Bullokar (1676).

n. A helper; an assistant; an aid.

n. Milit., properly, a regimental staff-officer appointed to assist the commanding officer of a regiment in the discharge of the details of his military duty.

n. The adjutant-bird (which see).

n. an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer

n. large Indian stork with a military gait

"This was said in such a pleasant manner I almost concluded the general had been misrepresented, but how changed his tone when he called his adjutant, who in an instant stood before him."

stork   

regimental adjutant    post adjutant    adjuvant    aid   

gigantic crane    argala   

Lesser Adjutant    Greater Adjutant   

helper    assistant    marabou    adjt.    adj.   

adjutant general    quartermaster    commandant    paymaster    commissary    quartermaster general    chaplain    sergeant major    aide    colonel