The word assistant in a sentence

Synonym: adjunct, help, helper, supporter. Similar words: assistance, assist, assist in, distant, resistance, instant, constant, instantly. Meaning: [-tənt]  n. a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose. adj. of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another. 

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1. She is assistant to a professor.

2. The president will accredit you as his assistant.

3. My assistant will now demonstrate the machine in action.

4. I’ll ask my personal assistant to deal with this.

5. The shop assistant is very zealous.

6. She was taken on as a laboratory assistant.

7. He has recently been promoted to Assistant Manager.

8. Kalan called his assistant, Hashim, to take over while he went out.

9. They need an assistant who is willing to stay for six months.

10. He needs an assistant.

11. The assistant carried on talking to his mate, name-dropping all the famous riders he knew.

12. An observant shop assistant had remembered exactly what the man was wearing.

13. The manager assistant came here to execute a few small commissions for the manager.

14. He was stopped at the airport by an assistant superintendent of police.

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15. She works as a care assistant in an old people’s home.

16. She has long been hoping to become the assistant manager.

17. A sharp-eyed shop assistant spotted the fake.

18. He was degraded from director to assistant director.

19. You are suited to be my assistant.

20. That sales assistant was positively rude to me!

21. I am the formal leader of the project but the everyday management is in the hands of my assistant.

22. She had earlier resigned her post as President Menem’s assistant.

23. I can’t attend the meeting but I’ll send my assistant in my stead.

24. I am pleased to tell you that your application for the post of Assistant Editor has been successful.

25. He deputed the running of the department to an assistant.

26. Rumours are going round about Mr Mason and his assistant.

27. My job is somewhere between a secretary and a personal assistant.

28. I gave the report to what’s-her-name — the new marketing assistant.

29. He has been relegated to the position of an assistant coach.

30. I have been relegated to the role of a mere assistant.

More similar words: assistance, assist, assist in, distant, resistance, instant, constant, instantly, distance, substantial, substantially, in the distance, subsist, insist, resist, persist, assign, stand, consist, classic, massive, classify, consist in, consist of, stand by, stand for, stand up, stand out, stance, classical. 

Definition of Assistant

a worker who helps in a particular field for task

Examples of Assistant in a sentence

Each library assistant was given a specific section of the library to put away books.

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Without an assistant to take on some of his work, it was hard for the editor to get all of his articles written.

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The nursing assistant was in charge of getting the tool for the doctor and taking the patient’s vital signs.

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On the first of February, an office assistant will be hired to help the attorney organize all of his case files.

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Although she wasn’t his official assistant, Mandy ran most parts of her father’s business out of her home office.

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Sentence Examples

I’m Gray’s assistant. Jane.

Well, in that I’m an assistant.

TANNOY: ‘Duty hygiene assistant to the staff canteen.

‘Duty hygiene assistant to the staff canteen, please.’

Dr. Richard Armstrong, the favorite student and assistant to the professor

Richard: «Did the assistant gardener finally hand her my bouquet?»

My campaign to marriage has brought me countless problems. Would you like to be my assistant?

But the assistant in the kitchen dreams of what happened in the last few hours …

«To help me in my work, I employ an assistant to copy my notes.»

Comrade Gusev is our chief assistant director.

The experiment that Professor Serral performed with your hands his assistant made off with my head.

The assistant book keeper

The assistant book keeper who awaits the judgement of destiny.

Director: S. M. EISENSTEIN assistant Director:

Photographed by A. GOLOVNYA Artistic assistant:

Miss White was her father’s trained assistant.

She was his assistant on the set, and when Feyder went to Vienna for a fortnight to negotiate his next contract, she stood in for him, supervising the link shots at Joinville studios.

This is Herr Mandelstam, the barber’s assistant.

I have been the assistant to the captain of the cavalry!

For Julie, my assistant, partner and dear friend.

«If it makes you happy, I will hire him as Buffo’s assistant

«My assistant, Mark Royce … Will now perform the big act, the great sword-trick.»

Kichibei of Kurohime, Kurama Tengu’s most loyal ally and assistant, had been sick but was recovering quickly.

Photographed by G├╝nther Krampf Sets by Andrejew Hesch assistant director Mark Sorkin

assistant editor ELIZAVETA SVILOVA

The shop assistant (Yelena Kuzmina)

Tomekichi, truck driver, and Hozo, his assistant, are good friends and co-tenants.

Of course, I shall miss Judy. She was a most valuable assistant.

Dziga Vertov assistant director:

It may interest you to know that I’m Dr. Gottlieb’s assistant and that I’m on my way to Ward D to take a strain of a very dangerous microbe.

I have arranged for you to go with me as my assistant.

And a man can’t marry on what a lab assistant makes. so… I’ll just have to practice medicine after all.

I was assistant to Max Gottlieb.

Also in 1931, James Whale cast him in another demented role, that of the hunchbacked laboratory assistant Fritz, in Frankenstein.

«Only my assistant is here to help me with my experiments-«

Heinosuke Gosho assistant Directors:

There are a flock of policemen, assistant district attorneys and reporters outside, running around with their noses to the ground.

With a good assistant, it could bring in 40 francs a day, net profit.

FOMKA SHARK’S NEW assistant.

assistant Directors AKIRA KIYOSUKE, KENKICHI HARA and HAMAO NEGISHI

If that’s on the level, there goes my assistant cashier’s job.


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The meaning of «Assistant» in various phrases and sentences

Q:
What does Hi^^ «Personal robotic assistants are devices that have no physical manipulation» In this sentence what does «physical manipulation» mean? Thank you in advance.. mean?

A:
I think the sentence is incorrect.

«Personal robotic assistants are devices that REQUIRE no physical manipulation»

If it was written like that, then «physical manipulation» means «hands off» or the robot does not need physical help from a human to function properly.

Q:
What does his two assistants raised cars on JACKS mean?

A:
A jack is something that helps lift up cars (usually to change flat tires)

Q:
What does ​‎One of the administrative assistant‘s duties is to ensure that all outside inquiries are answered. In this sentence what does «outside inquires» mean? mean?

A:
Inquiries is just a fancy word for questions, usually used in a professional or formal context. Outside in this context refers to someone not from immediate company, normally a customer. Basically, anyone who doesn’t immediately work for the company.

Q:
What does you could be forgiven for taking her for assistant if a second look did not reveal her prettiness mean?

A:
Forgive me if I am mistaken, but I think the phrase ‘you could be forgiven for taking her for an assistant‘ seems, at first glance the person thought she was the assistant. (Rather than not.) But looking a second time he felt like she was too pretty to be an assistant. (if that’s even a thing…)

Taking her=assuming that.
For assistant=she’s an assistant.

But yes, it will depend on the context.
I am guessing she’s not the assistant though

Q:
What does the assistant was rushed off his feet by phone calls mean?

A:
the assistant walked/ run/ needed move faster because there is a lot of phone calls

Example sentences using «Assistant»

Q:
Please show me example sentences with assistant.

A:
1.Rachel is my assistant

2.You are my assistant

That’s all I can think of. good luck!

Q:
Please show me example sentences with an assistant or a assistant? can you help me.

A:
«An» assistant is always correct. «A» assistant is incorrect

Q:
Please show me example sentences with assistant.

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The word assistant is a noun. «This is my assistant Mary. She helps me with things around the office.»

Synonyms of «Assistant» and their differences

Q:
What is the difference between All your assistants give prayers, and they solicit THE help from the gods. and All your assistants give prayers, and they solicit help from the gods. ?

A:
They’re the same except the first one is incorrect. It should be, «the help of the gods.» The additional «the» before help emphasis what is being asked OF the gods. The latter focuses where the help is coming from, the gods.

Q:
What is the difference between I’m an assistant to the director and I’m an assistant of the director ?

A:
[@Garciadanielsr] Hmm…I can’t think of any now, but maybe later.

When I was an assistant, I would say “My name is —- and I’m Maria’s assistant. She wonders if she can meet with Eric this week for 30 minutes.”

This is Carol, the nurse from Dr. Smith’s office, and I’m responding to your email.

My name is —- and I’m the president of Shakira’s fan club.

I’m Shakira’s personal assistant.

I hope that helps a little!

Q:
What is the difference between assistant coordinator and coordination assistant ?

A:
Para mim, ambas as frases são mais ou menos equivalentes no meu idioma.

Q:
What is the difference between administrative assistant and office clerk ?

A:
They are probably both the same, but job titles are quite vague in the UK.

Q:
What is the difference between そのアシスタントはいつもあなたのそばにいる and The assistant that is always by your side. ?

A:
The assistant that is always by your side= いつもあなたのそばにいるアシスタント。

Translations of «Assistant»

Q:
How do you say this in English (US)? assistant

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How do you say this in English (UK)? Can I say “I’ll have my assistant book a tomorrow’s hotel for you.”?

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I’ll have my assistant book tomorrow’s hotel for you.

Yes, that’s fine — except leave out the word «a».

«Tomorrow» is usually an adverb, but it is used as a noun much more often than we think it is. For example:

— The announcement will appear in tomorrow’s newspapers.

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How do you say this in English (US)? assistant

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How do you say this in English (US)? assistant

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Other questions about «Assistant»

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Please show me how to pronounce Administrative assistant.

Q:
I’m currently working as an assistant to a manager.
If I have to work for multiple managers, then it would be hectic and I might not be able to give everyone as much support as I am giving to my manager now. Does this sound natural?

A:
«I’m currently working as an assistant to my manager. If I had to work for multiple managers, then it would become hectic, and I might not be able to support all of them equally.»

Q:
The assistant then quickly called the police Does this sound natural?

A:
Yes, and good pronunciation

Q:
I started out working as a personal assistant and ended up being a full time mom. Does it sound natural?

A:
Yes, this would be a natural statement for a native speaker.

Q:
I worked as part-time assistant at college, and everything was going well at first. However, something went wrong. I screwed up a piece of work and now teacher is extremely upset at my bad performance. Does this sound natural?

A:
Don’t forget to add a/my before teacher, otherwise we don’t know what teacher you’re talking about.

«…and now my/a teacher is extremely…»

And «upset at my bad performance» is something everyone can understand, but since you were speaking informally before («screwed up»- kudos to you for learning that slang) it would sound better if you said something like, «and now my teacher is very mad at me.»

Or, since you already said «screwed off», you could say «and now my teacher is super pissed off at me.» (More informal slang that is at a similar formality level of «screwed up».)

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Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet

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— a person who assists someone : HELPER
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Macmillan
— someone whose job is to help another person in their work, for example by doing the easier parts of it
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Collins
— Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
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1 use of ‘assistant’ in A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle


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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

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

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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

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Words related to assistant

aide, apprentice, associate, attendant, backup, colleague, companion, deputy, friend, partner, representative, secretary, abettor, accessory, accomplice, adherent, adjunct, ally, appointee, auxiliary

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.

  • That shared trait, he said, may help researchers find a way to get proof assistants to, in some sense, explain themselves.

  • 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.

  • Jessie Buckley is fantastic as her long-suffering British assistant Rosalyn Wilder and Rufus Sewell is fascinating as Judy’s third husband Sid Luft.

  • Hannah Kerner is an assistant research professor at the University of Maryland in College Park.

  • The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.

  • Thankfully, his assistant knows these roads like the back of his hand.

  • Through a work-study program with the school, he is a Program Assistant at the UNC-Chapel Hill LGBT Center.

  • The assistant manager at the A&F store had found Elauf qualified for the position and was apparently going to hire her.

  • I spent four years in a prison where each handicapped convict was issued an underpaid inmate assistant.

  • Of the parts the young assistant of Nicolas Amati was allowed to put his individuality to, conspicuously stands the scroll.

  • Sometimes the tracing down may have been done by some advanced pupil or competent assistant.

  • The Assistant Commissioner, hand pressed to brow, began to study a document which lay before him.

  • «Certainly—certainly,» said the Assistant Commissioner, waving one large hand in the direction of a bookshelf.

  • «Certainly—certainly,» murmured the Assistant Commissioner, glancing up absently.

British Dictionary definitions for assistant


noun

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

adjective

archaic helpful or useful as an aid

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Sentences ending with assistant

  • To whom is Paaker conducting our stammering physician and his assistant? [10]
  • He would have none of the company of those lads with whom I found pleasure, young Harvey, and Willis’s son, who was being trained as Mr. Starkie’s assistant. [9]
  • She was to move that evening into the distinguished widow’s house, not as a servant, but as the old lady’s assistant. [10]
  • There was a master for the English branches, with a young lady assistant. [6]
  • I shall remain here with their Majesties, only»—and here he hesitated doubtfully—«where shall I find a competent assistant? [10]
  • I was just going to write to Venice for an assistant. [10]
  • Papias was on friendly terms with all the sculptors of the city, and it was only to be expected that he would warn them against him, and do his best to make it difficult to him to find a new place as assistant. [10]
  • The doctor was followed by a Russian assistant. [2]
  • I encourage freedom and merriment,» he continued turning to the priests from Cheraw, «among our disciples, for in fettering the fresh enjoyment of youth we lame our best assistant. [10]

Short sentences using assistant

  • The assistant looked fagged out. [2]

More example sentences with the word assistant in them

  • For any casual work connected with public functions Osterhaut was indispensable, and he would serve as a doctor’s assistant and help cut off a leg, be the majordomo for a Sunday-school picnic, or arrange a soiree at a meeting-house with equal impartiality. [11]
  • So the departure was delayed, and only the brave defence of young Philotas, Didymus’s assistant, and some of the Ephebi, who joined him, enabled them to escape unharmed. [10]
  • Her daughter Metz was also in the Ortlieb’s service as assistant to the chief cook. [10]
  • He became the village doctor’s assistant and dispenser at seventeen and induced his master to start a drug-store. [11]
  • He set up type in a printing office; he acted as an assistant in a bookstore; he served as clerk in a post-office. [4]
  • Her assistant hastily turned with a fork the little cakes, browning rapidly in the hollows of the iron, and when baked, laid them neatly on small plates. [10]
  • This had come to Serapion’s ears yesterday afternoon, through his adroit assistant Kastor, and he had taken advantage of the information to prepare Caesar during the night for the faithlessness of his chosen bride. [10]
  • She was soon to learn; for, even while she looked for them, the architect and the youth, in whom she had long since recognized Philotas, her grandfather’s assistant, seized the poles. [10]
  • He next wished to know who was dearer to the heart of the housekeeper, the assistant or her late husband, to which she rejoined «Why should I lament Vorkel? [10]
  • When Selene began to breathe more calmly Hannah beckoned her assistant to come close to her and asked in a low voice. [10]
  • He was going to Boston in charge of the body of the lamented Dr. Revere, the Assistant Surgeon of the regiment, killed on the field. [6]
  • Though not yet thirty, he had directed—first as his late father’s assistant and afterwards as his successor—the construction of the huge buildings erected by Cleopatra in Alexandria. [10]
  • In all these things he had found an admirable assistant in his sister Arsinoe. [10]
  • How the poor thing had trembled and moaned after the executioner’s assistant hung the heavy stone around her neck! [10]
  • Dear Dr. Gilman, they said, had had neither the strength nor the perception of ‘modern needs; and McCrae, the first assistant clergyman, while a good man, was a plodder and lacking in imagination. [9]
  • The taste of the editor, or of some assistant who uses the scissors, is in a manner forced upon thousands of people, who see little other printed matter than that which he gives them. [4]
  • This is what the chairman said: «The essayist for this evening is an old member of our club whom you all know, Mr. Parker, assistant editor of the Daily Democrat. [5]
  • But, just because the assistant evidently did not want him to go in, Rostov entered the soldiers’ ward. [2]
  • She was in the act of retiring, when Gorgias, the architect, followed by an assistant carrying surveying instruments, advanced towards her. [10]
  • He shall be taken away—taken away at once,» said the assistant hurriedly. [2]
  • His assistant, in sustaining him in the struggle he meant to enter, would be making even a greater sacrifice than himself. [9]
  • The assistant was supporting another patient, who died soon afterwards; he felt the pungent heat upon his skin, and was taken immediately with the symptoms of typhus. [3]
  • The portly woman stood comfortably at ease behind her eatables and drinkables, rested her fists on her hips, and glanced toward her assistant, who stared boldly into the musician’s face, and asked him to take some refreshment for himself and his sweetheart. [10]
  • Little Tomkinson, the second assistant, had resigned; and McCrae, who worked harder than ever before, was already marked, Hodder knew, for dismissal if he himself were defeated. [9]
  • During this time Rockwell prepared himself for the ordeal which must be passed as soon as possible; gave all needed directions, and had a conference with the assistant Chief Constable to whom he confided the truth. [11]
  • Trautchen must have risen early, for she came out of the rooms arranged for Georg’s occupation, followed by a young assistant carrying various scrubbing utensils. [10]
  • She packed, repacked, pressed, made the butler’s assistant and Petya—whom she had drawn into the business of packing—press on the lid, and made desperate efforts herself. [2]
  • Uncle finally grunted out his willingness, and Polly swept away again to prepare for the drive, taking no more notice of me than if I had been a poor assistant office lawyer on a salary. [4]
  • The duplicate returns, orders, and other papers heretofore sent to the assistant adjutant-general, headquarters of the army, will be discontinued. [7]
  • He often whistled or sang at his work, and his young Italian assistant played the guitar. [10]
  • Almost he had opened his lips to call his assistant back. [9]
  • To his mind, not the least of the trials it was to impose upon him, and one which would have to be dealt with shortly, was a necessary talk with his assistant, McCrae. [9]
  • But he did not return home; for after the council of the elders had separated, he helped the new commander to marshal the soldiers and did so as an assistant, subordinate to Hosea, who owed to her his summons and the name of Joshua. [10]
  • Nothing could be more becoming to her enchanting little princess, and Barbara yielded herself entirely to the experienced assistant, who had all the laces and ribbons she needed close at hand. [10]
  • And throughout these months, the feeling recurred, with increased strength, that McCrae was still watching him, —the notion persisted that his assistant held to a theory of his own, if he could but be induced to reveal it. [9]
  • So the assistant manager of Carvel & Company resolved to indulge in the pleasure of patronizing the Bostonian. [9]
  • He was no less tickled than his hopeful assistant, and they both stood for some seconds, grinning and gasping and wagging their heads at each other, on either side of the post, like an unmatchable pair of Chinese idols. [12]
  • The others were led by a slender youth, the student Philotas, from Amphissa, Didymus’s assistant, whom the architect, a few days before, had helped to liberate from the demons of wine. [10]
  • For Hodder had, it will be recalled, bidden his assistant good-by—and then had remained. [9]
  • If he goes into the place, he will simply be an efficient, zealous, and unselfish assistant to you. [7]
  • He has been in St. Louis five years, is now assistant manager of the largest dry goods house, and still lives in one of Miss Crane’s four-dollar rooms. [9]
  • The tailor was in great good-humour; for the terrible trial was over, and he now had an assistant who would be a better tailor than himself. [11]
  • He had proclaimed his desire for an able assistant in Miss Ottway’s place—he would get one, and nothing more. [9]
  • The good physician hired a couple of assistant surgeons and got through his benevolent work before dark, first taking the precaution to cancel his church-membership, so that he might express himself with the latitude which the case required. [5]
  • The principal carried him to the desk of the young lady English assistant, Miss Darley by name, and introduced him to her. [6]
  • When he quitted him he carried in his hand an order of arrest against his assistant Pollux, who had attacked his property and abstracted a quiver of massive silver. [10]
  • The tailor begged her to allow her maid to dress her; his assistant would help her because the dresses which were only slightly stitched together for trying on, were cut, not in the Greek but in the Oriental fashion. [10]
  • One night as he stood with his assistant in the hall after the men had gone, Hodder could contain himself no longer. [9]
  • Well, now that he had worked it out, now that he had reached his decision, it was incumbent upon him to tell his assistant what that decision was. [9]
  • It would not have occurred to Mr. Silas Peckham to ask his assistant whether he felt well enough to attend to his duties; and Mr. Bernard chose to be at his post. [6]
  • The «Red Coat»—[Executioner]—was giving orders to his «Life»—[Executioner’s assistant («Lion»)]—as they carried across the courtyard a new instrument of torture intended for the room adjoining the Council chamber, where those who refused to make depositions were forced to it. [10]
  • The assistant, however, did not confirm the doctor’s words. [2]
  • He was standing defiantly over the stooping figure of the assistant manager. [9]
  • He and his deaf assistant were sitting before the fire. [12]
  • I think I could get the assistant editorship of the Levant Herald, but I am going to try to worry along without it. [5]
  • He knew the Castilian’s value as a soldier, and would have deemed himself forgetful of duty had he withheld so able an assistant from the great cause which he was leading. [10]
  • But Hodder was capable of no such resignation —if resignation it were, for the self-contained assistant continued to be an enigma; and it was not without compunction that he left, about the middle of July, on his own vacation. [9]
  • Miss Wetherell, I believe, stands in the relation of ward to the person to whom they refer, and her father was a sort of political assistant to this person. [9]
  • It would have been perilous for anybody to laugh at the English chiefs or at the majority of Cauchon’s assistant judges, but to laugh at Cauchon or D’Estivet and Loyseleur was safe—nobody would report it. [5]
  • His cupidity had been flattered by the unpaid service of a capable assistant, but now he saw that he was paying the devil a wage. [11]
  • It happened to be the end of a term; and before the next began, a very nice young woman, who had been her assistant, was announced as her successor, and she was provided for elsewhere. [6]
  • I am to be Helen Darley, lady assistant in Mr. Silas Peckham’s school, as long as I see fit to hold my office. [6]
  • Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis, Assistant Secretary of State under President Grant and Secretary Fish, wrote a letter to the New York «Herald,» under the date of January 4, 1878, since reprinted as a pamphlet and entitled «Mr. Sumner, the Alabama Claims and their Settlement. [6]
  • Mr. McCrae, Hodder’s assistant, seemed to regard these annual phenomena with a grim philosophy,—a relic, perhaps, of the Calvinistic determinism of his ancestors. [9]
  • He needs an assistant, a suffragan or coadjutor, and I intend to make it my affair to see that he gets one. [9]
  • Rostov and the assistant went into the dark corridor. [2]
  • The young lady assistant had to point out to the new master the whole routine in which the classes were engaged when their late teacher left, and which had gone on as well as it could since. [6]
  • He found one and then went to work as assistant to an architect and builder, carrying a hod all day and studying politics evenings. [5]
  • At Sunderland, «in all, forty-three cases occurred from the 1st of January to the 1st of October, when the disease ceased; and of this number forty were witnessed by Mr. Gregson and his assistant, Mr. Gregory, the remainder having been separately seen by three accoucheurs. [3]
  • Presiding over its activities, and seconded by a pale, but earnest young man recently ordained, was Hodder’s first assistant, the Reverend Mr. McCrae. [9]
  • She was as active an assistant to her husband with her pen as with her tongue. [10]
  • The cook and a shop assistant came to the gate. [2]
  • But McCrae had a peculiar effect on him, and as time went on, his conviction deepened that his assistant was watching him. [9]
  • He nodded, with a melancholy smile, at the face—so much aged—that looked at him from the bright surface, paid what was asked, and did not heed the compassionate glance which the barber and his assistant sent after him. [10]

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Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. assistant, helper, help, supporteradjective

    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»

  2. adjunct, assistantadjective

    of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

  1. assistantnoun

    Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.

  2. assistantnoun

    A person who assists or helps someone else.

  3. assistantnoun

    sales assistant.

  4. assistantnoun

    A software tool that provides assistance in some task.

  5. assistantadjective

    Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

  6. Etymology: From assistant, from assister.

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Assistantadjective

    Helping; lending aid.

    Etymology: from assist.

    Some perchance did adhere to the duke, and were assistant to him openly, or at least under hand.
    Matthew Hale, Com. Law of Engl.

  2. Assistantnoun

    Etymology: from assist.

    1. A person engaged in an affair not as principal, but as auxiliary or ministerial.

    Some young towardly noblemen or gentlemen were usually sent as assistants or attendants, according to the quality of the persons.
    Francis Bacon, Advice to Sir George Villiers.

    2. Sometimes it is only a softer word for an attendant.

    The pale assistants on each other star’d,
    With gaping mouths for issuing words prepar’d.
    Dryden.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Assistantadjective

    helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary

  2. Assistantadjective

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

  3. Assistantnoun

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

  4. Assistantnoun

    an attendant; one who is present

  5. Etymology: [Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of assister.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

  1. assistant

    In the English army, is the third grade in any particular branch of the staff, such as the quartermaster-general’s or adjutant-general’s. After the principal comes the deputy and then the assistant. In the United States it is the second grade in the staff branches of the army.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. assistant

    A person with the accurate and specific ability, experience, knowledge, training, awareness to perform their job title, role and responsibility to provide support in a business.

    Assistant roles are within retail, schools and other organizations.

    Submitted by MaryC on March 14, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word ‘assistant’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4590

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word ‘assistant’ in Nouns Frequency: #1495

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word ‘assistant’ in Adjectives Frequency: #673

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of assistant in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of assistant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of assistant in a Sentence

  1. Vicki Lawrence:

    Carol Burnett wrote back and said, ‘ I know, I know. I spoke to Betty’s assistant, who was with her when she passed, and she said the very last word out of her mouth was ‘ Allen Ludden,’.

  2. Jesse Hernandez:

    BOY, 13, FOUND ALIVE AFTER FALLING INTO LOS ANGELES DRAINAGE DITCH’ MAZE’ The children ran to the adults, who called 911 as Jesse was fighting to stay alive in the fast-moving sewage. Rescuers used cameras propped on flotation devices to locate the boy. They finally spotted handprints on a sewage pipe that eventually led them to Jesse’s location. The first thing they heard was’ Help !’ said Adel Hagekhalil, assistant general manager of the sanitation department. Adel Hagekhalil caught onto the hose and was reeled back up.

  3. Jeffrey Tambor:

    I am aware that a former disgruntled assistant of mine has made a private post implying that I had acted in an improper manner toward her, i adamantly and vehemently reject and deny any and all implication and allegation that I have ever engaged in any improper behavior toward this person or any other persons I have ever worked with.

  4. Lisa Monaco:

    I can inform the committee today that the recently confirmed Assistant AG for the criminal division is currently reviewing this matter, including new information that has come to light, i do want the committee, and frankly I want the survivors, to understand how exceptionally seriously we take this issue and believe this reserves a thorough and full review.

  5. Gary Marcus:

    The notion was it was going to be this universal assistant that was going to help you order in a romantic dinner and get musicians to play for you and flowers delivery — way beyond what Siri can do.

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Translations for assistant

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  • مساعدArabic
  • спомагателен, асистент, помощникBulgarian
  • assistente, auxiliarCatalan, Valencian
  • asistent, asistentka, pomocnice, pomocníkCzech
  • helfend, Assistent, hilfreich, Helfer, MitarbeiterGerman
  • βοηθόςGreek
  • asistente, ayudanteSpanish
  • آسیستان, دستیارPersian
  • avustaja, apulainen, apulais-, aputyöntekijä, assistentti, avustavaFinnish
  • auxiliaire, aide, assistantFrench
  • cúntóirIrish
  • asistenteGalician
  • helyettes, asszisztens, segédHungarian
  • օգնականArmenian
  • helpanto, helperoIdo
  • assistenteItalian
  • アシスタント, 助手Japanese
  • ასისტენტიGeorgian
  • អ្នកជំនួយKhmer
  • 조수Korean
  • شاگرد, asîstanKurdish
  • optiōLatin
  • taituarā, kaiāwhinaMāori
  • pembantuMalay
  • အကူBurmese
  • assistent, medhjelper, assisterendeNorwegian
  • assistentDutch
  • medhjelpar, assistentNorwegian Nynorsk
  • asystentPolish
  • assistente, ajudantePortuguese
  • asistentRomanian
  • помощница, вспомогательный, ассистентка, ассистент, помощникRussian
  • asistente, asistentAlbanian
  • assistentSwedish
  • naibuSwahili
  • ผู้ช่วยThai
  • asistanTurkish
  • yufanVolapük

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