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

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

Everyone jumps a bit as the intercom box on the wall squawks to life and we hear the high-pitched voice of Mrs. Dithers, the administrative assistant.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell