administrative assistant

American  

noun

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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Example Sentences

They are often lumped together as "missing scientists", but the list includes an administrative assistant, an Air Force general, an engineer and a custodian, and spans several fields, from researching exoplanets to pharmaceuticals.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 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

Proof of Mr. Dilenschneider’s commitment to respectfulness is the dedication of his book—to Joan Avagliano, his administrative assistant for more than 30 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

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

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

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri