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as⋅sis⋅tant

  [uh-sis-tuhnt]
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–noun
1. a person who assists or gives aid and support; helper.
2. a person who is subordinate to another in rank, function, etc.; one holding a secondary rank in an office or post: He was assistant to the office manager.
3. something that aids and supplements another.
4. a faculty member of a college or university who ranks below an instructor and whose responsibilities usually include grading papers, supervising laboratories, and assisting in teaching.
–adjective
5. assisting; helpful.
6. serving in an immediately subordinate position; of secondary rank: an assistant coach.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME assistent < L assistent- (s. of assistēns, prp. of assistere to assist ); see -ent, -ant

Synonyms:
2. aide, adjutant.
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as·sis·tant   (ə-sĭs'tənt)   
n.  One that assists; a helper.
adj.  
  1. Holding an auxiliary position; subordinate.
  2. Giving aid; auxiliary.
Synonyms: These nouns denote a person who holds a position auxiliary to another and assumes some of his or her responsibilities: an editorial assistant; a senator's aide; the general's coadjutant; a bishop's coadjutor; a teacher's helper; a politician's lieutenant; a prizefighter's second.
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Assistant

As*sist"ant\, a. [Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of assister.]

1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. --Beattie.

2. (Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]

Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. --Farrow.

Assistant

As*sist"ant\, n. 1. One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.

Four assistants who his labor share. --Pope.

Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. --Mrs. Chapone.

2. An attendant; one who is present. --Dryden.
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Language Translation for : assistant
Spanish: ayudante,
German: der, *die Assistent(in); der, *die Stellvertreter(in); stellvertretend,
Japanese: 助力, 補助の
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