1 someone whose job is to give advice about something, for example, to a company or government:
An independent adviser has been brought in to conciliate between the two sides involved in the conflict.
He resigned from a high-profile job as economic adviser to the prime minister.
I waited so long for my turn to see the careers adviser that I missed my train.
An outside adviser has been brought in to arbitrate the dispute between the management and the union.
Now ministers, more and more, come to look on their top civil servants as managers running a department, rather than as policy advisers.
A fund cannot easily change advisers, but an investor can change funds.
This is often where the expert adviser enters - to provide the best defence available for those things that politicians have already decided to do.
