assistant

[ uh-sis-tuhnt ]

/ əˈsɪs tənt /

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noun

a person who assists or gives aid and support; helper.

a person who is subordinate to another in rank, function, etc.; one holding a secondary rank in an office or post: He was assistant to the office manager.

something that aids and supplements another.

a faculty member of a college or university who ranks below an instructor and whose responsibilities usually include grading papers, supervising laboratories, and assisting in teaching.

adjective

assisting; helpful.

serving in an immediately subordinate position; of secondary rank: an assistant coach.

OTHER WORDS FOR assistant

2 aide, adjutant.

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Origin of assistant

1400–50; late Middle English assistent<Latin assistent- (stem of assistēns, present participle of assistere to assist); see -ent, -ant

OTHER WORDS FROM assistant

non·as·sis·tant, nounun·as·sist·ant, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH assistant

assistance, assistants

Words nearby assistant

Assisi, assist, assistance, assistance animal, assistance dog, assistant, assistant professor, assistant referee, assistantship, assisted dying, assisted living

How to use assistant in a sentence

Mimi Gehin, a director’s assistant for global production company Stink Films, lives with five other people in a warehouse in East London.
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That shared trait, he said, may help researchers find a way to get proof assistants to, in some sense, explain themselves.
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Fitbit had more success with the $200 Versa, released in 2018, and last year’s follow up, the Versa 2, which first added the ability to connect with Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa.
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Jessie Buckley is fantastic as her long-suffering British assistant Rosalyn Wilder and Rufus Sewell is fascinating as Judy’s third husband Sid Luft.
FROM THE VAULTS: Best Actress edition|Brian T. Carney|August 20, 2020|Washington Blade

Hannah Kerner is an assistant research professor at the University of Maryland in College Park.
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The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.
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Thankfully, his assistant knows these roads like the back of his hand.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Through a work-study program with the school, he is a Program Assistant at the UNC-Chapel Hill LGBT Center.
Beaten By His Church for Being Gay|Justin Jones|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The assistant manager at the A&F store had found Elauf qualified for the position and was apparently going to hire her.
Muslims & Jews Unite vs. Abercrombie & Fitch|Dean Obeidallah|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I spent four years in a prison where each handicapped convict was issued an underpaid inmate assistant.
A Million Ways to Die in Prison|Daniel Genis|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Of the parts the young assistant of Nicolas Amati was allowed to put his individuality to, conspicuously stands the scroll.
Antonio Stradivari|Horace William Petherick
Sometimes the tracing down may have been done by some advanced pupil or competent assistant.
Antonio Stradivari|Horace William Petherick
The Assistant Commissioner, hand pressed to brow, began to study a document which lay before him.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
"Certainly—certainly," said the Assistant Commissioner, waving one large hand in the direction of a bookshelf.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
"Certainly—certainly," murmured the Assistant Commissioner, glancing up absently.
Dope|Sax Rohmer

British Dictionary definitions for assistant

assistant

/ (əˈsɪstənt) /

noun

a person who assists, esp in a subordinate position
(as modifier)assistant manager

See shop assistant

adjective

archaic helpful or useful as an aid

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