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Adjutant vs Decamp - What's the difference?

adjutant | decamp |

As a noun adjutant

is adjutant.

As a verb decamp is

to break up camp and move on.

adjutant

English

(wikipedia adjutant) (Leptoptilos)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (military) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
  • An assistant.
  • A bird in the genus Leptoptilos of the stork family Ciconiidae.

    • Synonyms

    * (bird) marabou

    Derived terms

    * (bird) greater adjutant, Leptoptilos dubius * (bird) lesser adjutant, Leptoptilos javanicus

    Adjective

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

    • Synonyms

    * *

    See also

    * adjuvant * aid ----

    decamp

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break up camp and move on.
  • To disappear suddenly and secretly.
  • * , Episode 16
    • Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.

    Synonyms

    * abscond * absquatulate

    Anagrams

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