administrative assistant

American  

noun

administrative assistants plural

1. a person employed to aid an executive, as in a corporate department, by coordinating such office services and procedures as the supervision, maintenance, and control of the flow of work and programs, personnel, budgeting, records, etc., for the entire department.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• administrative assistants
  plural

Example Sentences

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administrative assistant

Casias had been an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the first atomic bomb was developed and where nuclear weapon work continues, her family told local news outlets after her disappearance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Melissa Casias, an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, was reported missing last June.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Madigan was born in Chicago on September 11, 1950 to a journalist father and a mother who worked as an administrative assistant and did community theater in her spare time.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

He’s now the president of baseball operations for the Philadelphia Phillies, closing in on the 50-year anniversary of a career that began as an administrative assistant for the Chicago White Sox in 1978.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

From a professor, she learns what happened: Alice, the administrative assistant, had fallen suddenly by the mailboxes.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri