Usually means: Assistant who provides administrative support.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word adjutant:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. adjutant: Merriam-Webster
  2. adjutant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adjutant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adjutant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adjutant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adjutant, adjutant: Wordnik
  7. adjutant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adjutant: Wiktionary
  9. adjutant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adjutant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adjutant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adjutant, adjutant: Dictionary.com
  13. adjutant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Adjutant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Adjutant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. adjutant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. adjutant: Rhymezone
  18. Adjutant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. adjutant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. adjutant: FreeDictionary.org
  21. adjutant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. adjutant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. adjutant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. adjutant: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. adjutant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adjutant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (military) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
noun:  An assistant.
noun:  (zoology) Any bird of the genus Leptoptilos, a branch of the stork family (Ciconiidae) native to India and Southeast Asia.
adjective:  Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.

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