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

They include an independent researcher, a long-retired Air Force general, and Casias, the administrative assistant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 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 was sent to India for the BBC in 1965 - at first as an administrative assistant, but in time he began to take on a reporting role.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

Faizah, for example, is a 31-year-old woman living in California, where she works as an administrative assistant at a nonprofit.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2025

Or is that when the administrative assistant put the squeeze on Mr. Big?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner