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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Noun Inflected Forms

• administrative assistants
  plural

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Example Sentences

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administrative assistant

Back when the Canadian author was penning “Station Eleven,” she was still working a day job as an administrative assistant in a cancer research lab at the Rockefeller University in New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

I’m currently in a corporate leadership role, and lately I’ve been seriously considering leaving it behind to do something completely different — maybe even becoming an administrative assistant.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● 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

Please fill in the following information and return to Jessie Jane, Miss Teen Dream Pageant administrative assistant, before Monday.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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