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    [Noun]  | "con*sig*li*e*re" | \ kōn-(ˌ)sil-ˈye-re \


    1: a person who serves as an adviser or counselor to the leader of a criminal organization; also : someone (such as a powerful political consultant) who is being likened in some way to such an adviser


    Origin: 1963 ;

     Italian, from consiglio advice, counsel, from Latin consilium{mat|counsel|};

    [Noun]  | "consigliere" 


    1: a person who gives advice especially professionally;


      * e.g., " ... the President's trusted consigliere and chief political strategist "



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     [ "consigliere" ]

    1: An adviser or counselor, especially to a capo or leader of an organized crime syndicate. He is the one that keeps peace between Families, and is also third in line in La Costa Nostra(This Little Thing Of Ours)right under the Underboss and Don.

      * e.g.,  ... Don~1 

     [ "Consigliere" ]

    1: A trusted counselor or advisor, should be pronounced CON-sul-YARE-ee

      * e.g.,  ... When it comes to personal matters, my wife is my consigliere. 

     [ "Consigliere" ]

    1: The counseler for the underboss and don of a mafia family

      * e.g.,  ... Lets ask my consigliere 

     [ "wartime consigliere" ]

    1: A senior advisor with the cunning and ruthlessness needed to defeat an enemy during times of open conflict. Unconstrained by the caution and deliberation called for during regular business order.

      * e.g.,  ... Tom Hagen advised the Corleone's well as it grew into the Mafia's pre-eminent family; but he wasn't a wartime consigliere. 

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