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発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /kɔn.sɪlˈjɛɹ.eɪ/, /kɑn.sɪl.iˈɛɹ.i/, /koʊn-/, /kɑn.sɪɡ.liˈɛɹ.eɪ/

名詞

consigliere (複数形 consiglieri または consiglieres)

1. A counselor or advisor, especially to Mafia bosses.
   • 2007 May 13, Patrick Healy, “In New Role, Senator Clinton’s Strategist in Chief”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He [Bill Clinton] is the master strategist behind the scenes; the consigliere to the head of “the family,” as some Clinton aides refer to her operation; and a fund-raising machine who is steadily pulling in $100,000 or more at receptions.

   • 2017 January 24, Eric Levitz, “Trump Aides Keep Leaking Embarrassing Stories About How He Can’t Handle Embarrassment”, in New York Magazine‎^[2]:

     Jared Kushner tried to prevent [Kellyanne] Conway from being invited into the White House at all, because he viewed her “as a possible threat to his role as Trump’s chief consigliere.”

   • 2021 August 6, Gaby Hinsliff, “Johnson’s muddle over Covid is a foretaste of his thinking on climate change.”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     What we’re seeing on the climate crisis looks, in other words, wearily familiar: a combination of Boris Johnson’s allergy to taking unpopular decisions, plus a preference for working in what his old consigliere Dominic Cummings calls an atmosphere of chaos, where nobody is entirely sure what their mercurial boss wants or stands for, and thus finds it harder to oppose him.

参考

• éminence grise
• svengali

参照

• “consigliere”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “consigliere”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “consigliere”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “consigliere” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Further reading

• consigliere on Wikipedia.