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assistant
[ uh-sis-tuhnt ]
noun
- a person who assists or gives aid and support; helper.
- 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.
- something that aids and supplements another.
- 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
- assisting; helpful.
- serving in an immediately subordinate position; of secondary rank:
an assistant coach.
assistant
/ əˈsɪstənt /
noun
- a person who assists, esp in a subordinate position
- ( as modifier )
assistant manager
- See shop assistantSee shop assistant
adjective
- archaic.helpful or useful as an aid
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Other Words From
- nonas·sistant noun
- unas·sistant adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of assistant1
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Example Sentences
The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.
Thankfully, his assistant knows these roads like the back of his hand.
Through a work-study program with the school, he is a Program Assistant at the UNC-Chapel Hill LGBT Center.
The assistant manager at the A&F store had found Elauf qualified for the position and was apparently going to hire her.
I spent four years in a prison where each handicapped convict was issued an underpaid inmate assistant.
Of the parts the young assistant of Nicolas Amati was allowed to put his individuality to, conspicuously stands the scroll.
Sometimes the tracing down may have been done by some advanced pupil or competent assistant.
The Assistant Commissioner, hand pressed to brow, began to study a document which lay before him.
"Certainly—certainly," said the Assistant Commissioner, waving one large hand in the direction of a bookshelf.
"Certainly—certainly," murmured the Assistant Commissioner, glancing up absently.
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