Word Finder - adjutant

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

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An assistant.

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Any bird of the genus Leptoptilos, a branch of the stork family (Ciconiidae) native to India and Southeast Asia.

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Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.

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adjutant officer

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

The words passed along the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer.

Hitler's army adjutant, Major Gerhard Engel, returned with a vivid description of the mountain terrain.

I want nothing, and I won't be anyone's adjutant.

We can get a view from there and in our battery it is still bearable, said the adjutant.

Between 1919 and 1929 he served as a company commander, battalion adjutant and instructor at military schools.

Generalmajor Graf Nugent and his brigade adjutant accompanied this column.

Spent 5 years as squadron adjutant, taking over the squadron in Nov 1983, when the CO retired.

But, though his duties were primarily financial, the quaestor was after all the chief assistant or adjutant of his superior in command, and as such he was invested with a certain degree of military power; under the republic his military rank was superior to that of the legates, though under the empire this relation was reversed.

And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky steps down the line.

Nearest of all to the commander-in-chief walked a handsome adjutant.

On returning from the review, Kutuzov took the Austrian general into his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of the advanced army.

The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by Zherkov.

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

The adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger.

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

Recalling his recent impressions, the first thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented to the Emperor Francis; he remembered the Minister of War, the polite Austrian adjutant, Bilibin, and last night's conversation.

But after it was over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed Bolkonski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience.

Yesterday's adjutant reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him his own house.

Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvitski and another adjutant having something to eat.

And God only knows where your man Peter is, said the other adjutant.

He looked straight at his adjutant's face without recognizing him.

Bagration replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutuzov to report the offer he had received.

On receiving the news he immediately dispatched Adjutant General Wintzingerode, who was in attendance on him, to the enemy camp.

Bonaparte's adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to Murat.

Bonaparte's adjutant had not yet reached Murat's detachment and the battle had not yet begun.

A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by.

Behind Prince Bagration rode an officer of the suite, the prince's personal adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian--an accountant who had asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity.

He rode off at a walk to the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the French.

Turning to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed.

A moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same order.

I only sent you the note yesterday by Bolkonski--an adjutant of Kutuzov's, who's a friend of mine.

So far everything's all right, but I confess I should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.

Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried him all the way.

The day after the review, Boris, in his best uniform and with his comrade Berg's best wishes for success, rode to Olmutz to see Bolkonski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself the best post he could--preferably that of adjutant to some important personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive.

One adjutant, nearest the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing.

Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant?

Nominally he is only an adjutant on Kutuzov's staff, but he does everything alone.

Seeing him, Kutuzov's malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what was being done was not his adjutant's fault, and still not answering the Austrian adjutant, he addressed Bolkonski.

Prince Andrew, who was a little behind looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass.

The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying to snatch it from one another.

The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots.

But at noon the adjutant of the regiment came into Rostov's and Denisov's dugout with a grave and serious face and regretfully showed them a paper addressed to Major Denisov from the regimental commander in which inquiries were made about yesterday's occurrence.

Boris lodged with another adjutant, the Polish Count Zhilinski.

During his service, chiefly as an adjutant, Prince Andrew had seen the anterooms of many important men, and the different types of such rooms were well known to him.

Prince Andrew for the second time asked the adjutant on duty to take in his name, but received an ironical look and was told that his turn would come in due course.

He was now in an adjutant's uniform with one epaulet and a shoulder knot.

His father announced to him that he would now pay half his debts for the last time, but only on condition that he went to Moscow as adjutant to the commander-in-chief--a post his father had procured for him--and would at last try to make a good match there.

As the mazurka began, Boris saw that Adjutant General Balashev, one of those in closest attendance on the Emperor, went up to him and contrary to court etiquette stood near him while he was talking to a Polish lady.

But instead of that, at the next village the sentinels of Davout's infantry corps detained him as the pickets of the vanguard had done, and an adjutant of the corps commander, who was fetched, conducted him into the village to Marshal Davout.