administrative assistant

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.

Example Sentences

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.

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She quit her job as an administrative assistant two years ago, confident she’d easily land another one.

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A decade ago, Shilling felt unsatisfied as an administrative assistant at L.A.

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

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While we were talking, Bass got an urgent call from her daughter, Yvette Lechuga, who works as senior administrative assistant at Mount St. Mary’s University.

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