Adjutant
Adjutant ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Latin adjutans, present participle of adjutare to help. See Aid.]
1.
A helper; an assistant.
2.
(Military) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.
Collocations (1)
Adjutant general (Military) , the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.
3.
(Zoology) 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.