assistant

[as·sis·tant]

An assistant is someone that is there to help. If you work 80 hours a week, you might want to think about hiring a personal assistant to pick up your dry cleaning.

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Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

Noun
a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

Adjective S.
of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another


a.
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

a.
Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.

n.
One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.

n.
An attendant; one who is present.


Assistant

As*sist"ant , a. [Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of assister.] 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
2. (Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.] &hand; In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow.

Assistant

As*sist"ant , n. 1. One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
Four assistants who his labor share.
Rhymes merely as assistants to memory.
2. An attendant; one who is present. Dryden.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.

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Usage Examples

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

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Other Usage Examples

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

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