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Assistant   /əsˈɪstənt/   Listen
Assistant

noun
1.
A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.  Synonyms: help, helper, supporter.  "They hired additional help to finish the work"
adjective
1.
Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another.  Synonym: adjunct.



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... and active woman, with a complexion as clear as that of her own best china, chatted vivaciously with the visitor, whilst she superintended the unpacking of a couple of crates by a muscular youth and a young lady (to use the technical term), her shop assistant. ...
— The Town Traveller • George Gissing

... return to Wigand is well exemplified in an article contributed to the "Preussischen Jahrbuecher" for January, 1897, by Dr. Karl Camillo Schneider, assistant at the zoological Institute of the University of Vienna. This article which is entitled The Origin of Species, pursues Wigand's train of thought throughout, and whole sentences and even paragraphs are taken verbatim from his main work. This, at all events, is ...
— At the Deathbed of Darwinism - A Series of Papers • Eberhard Dennert

... nearest were still some hundreds of miles from this point of transfer when a carload of recruits was dumped upon the broad platform, and the superintendent scratched his head, and screwed up the corner of his mouth, and asked an assistant how in a hotter place than even Salt Lake Valley the road could expect him to forward troops without delay "when the road took away the last car in the yard ...
— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King

... H. Connick; Assistant Director of Works and Chief of Department of Construction, A. H. Markwart; Chief of Architecture, George W. Kelham; Chief, Department of Sculpture, K. T. F. Bitter; Acting Chief, A. Stirling Calder; Chief, Department of Color and Decoration, Jules Guerin; ...
— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... tall Indian came slowly and solemnly to the station. His face had a troubled look, and there was an air of mystery about his gait and attitude. He stopped before one of the assistant missionaries, drew together his blanket, ...
— The Log School-House on the Columbia • Hezekiah Butterworth


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