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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
assistant
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an assistant coach
▪ He took a job as an assistant coach at the college.
assistant professor
personal assistant
personal digital assistant
sales assistant
shop assistant
teaching assistant
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attorney
▪ The assistant attorney general then shipped it back to Dewey without even attaching a letter.
▪ Clinton named a new assistant attorney general for civil rights, Deval Patrick, who persuaded the administration to switch sides.
coach
▪ By the spring of 1993, after being an assistant coach for eight years, she was ready to make the jump.
▪ Plucked out of school rugby by the current All Black assistant coach, Ellis has impressed with his ability and polished skills.
▪ He came to Arizona State University as an assistant coach in 1984.
▪ I thought maybe I could be hired by a Major League Soccer team or continue on as an assistant coach.
▪ Bill Tobin is a firm believer that the scouting department should have more influence than assistant coaches in running the draft.
▪ Suns assistant coach Donn Nelson has a loaded itinerary.
commissioner
▪ The assistant commissioner reported troubles with the farmers, but much more with the labourers.
▪ As assistant commissioner, Smith oversees marketing programs involving livestock, horticulture, fiber and international marketing.
▪ Ultimately, I made him an assistant commissioner.
cook
▪ He worked his way up from kitchen porter, assistant cook, employment at a casino and by painting and decorating.
▪ The assistant cooks toyed with salamanders and spits without interest.
▪ The assistant cooks heaved on the rope and the cook pot lurched slowly backwards.
director
▪ He became superintendent of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough in 1916 and assistant director of aircraft production in 1917.
▪ Bonanni, the former assistant director for Installations and Logistics.
▪ Before that she was a divisional director in Berkshire and assistant director in Reading County Borough.
▪ He served as assistant director from 1952 to 1960.
▪ Price Waterhouse consultancy was offered and a senior assistant director in the department appointed in charge to push the changes forward.
editor
▪ Climber assistant editor Tom Prentice and leader Keith Milne reached the summit of the 6,904m mountain after 13 days.
▪ Normally, the inconsistency wouldn't matter, but it might now that she's assistant editor.
▪ Guy Riddihough is an assistant editor of Nature.
▪ I also spoke to the assistant editor, when he came in.
manager
▪ The Association exists purely for the benefit of assistant managers.
▪ Hotel managers and assistant managers strive to ensure their guests will have a pleasant stay.
▪ Also, I'd make arrangements with your assistant manager to cover for Michael long-term.
▪ I told myself that Stu was just nervous, here on the job, assistant manager, acting like he invented wiring.
▪ Shankly was assistant manager to Andy Beattie when Huddersfield were relegated.
▪ Salaries of assistant managers also varied because of differences in duties and responsibilities.
▪ He, his assistant managers and chefs all hold the Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
▪ Employment Hotel managers and assistant managers held about 105, 000 wage and salary jobs in 1994.
principal
▪ Some assistant principals hold this position for several years to prepare for advancement to principal; others are career assistant principals.
▪ Depending on the number of students, the number of assistant principals a school employs may vary.
▪ He then served on county staff development staffs until becoming assistant principal at Bryant in 1998.
▪ But more assistant principals and janitors are necessary to make the schools operate effectively, Saylor said.
▪ Much of that sentiment stems from the transfer in March of Gloria Nogales-Talley, a popular Latina assistant principal.
▪ Similarly, a New York court ruled that a school district could transfer a teacher who married her assistant principal.
▪ But he said it looks bad to the public to cut teachers while hiring janitors and assistant principals.
professor
▪ The doctor has been sent on leave from her post as an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard.
▪ He got his Nobel for the work he started as an assistant professor at Harvard.
recorder
▪ The assistant recorder, sitting in the county court, refused leave to introduce the counterclaim and made an order for possession.
▪ The court also upheld the decision of the assistant recorder to reject the counterclaim which the defendant sought to introduce.
▪ The assistant recorder determined the preliminary issue in favour of the plaintiff, and the council now appeal to this court against his decision.
▪ The assistant recorder determined that issue in the plaintiff's favour.
superintendent
▪ Potential employees are screened more carefully now, said John Townsend, assistant superintendent of operations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My mother is assistant principal at a school in Washington, D.C.
▪ Noll, an assistant coach with the Colts, was hired by the Steelers as head coach.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Calls to assistant general manager Mike Port came at a bad time.
▪ He was a red-blooded assistant bank manager.
▪ Hurt was quickly hired, and several weeks later Friedman selected Harry Lawrence Clark as an assistant cryptographic clerk.
▪ The assistant commissioner reported troubles with the farmers, but much more with the labourers.
▪ The, the, the late director was pushed and knocked down I guess when he was assistant director.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
▪ Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants, then to those of the statistical clerks.
▪ I had worked for many years as an administrative assistant and an executive assistant.
▪ The post is sometimes also known as administrative assistant.
▪ Until September, she was an administrative assistant at a geriatric hospital.
▪ The lack of help has forced the part-time student and administrative assistant to move to her parents' South San Francisco home.
▪ They need your help about everything from prospecting to how to get along with their administrative assistant.
▪ Lisa has two daughters, 12 and 16, and works as an administrative assistant in a bank.
▪ She also decided to redesign the functions of the two administrative assistants in the office, to get the help she needed.
chief
▪ The 35-year-old is chief valuation assistant for Liverpool City Council, which means she always has to look smart for work.
▪ Before moving to Radio 2 she was chief assistant at Radio 4, handling schedules.
▪ Who was Osvaldo's chief assistant these days, X. Ray or the Corporal?
clerical
▪ This was considered to be due to the limited involvement of the officers and the clerical assistant in certain parts of the analysis.
▪ Apart from Summerchild and a clerical assistant, the Unit at the last count still consisted of one single member, Serafin herself.
▪ Adoption of this system has not only avoided the need to employ at least two clerical assistants.
▪ Serafin was proposing to involve the clerical assistant in the discussion?
▪ General administration and clerical work - officers and clerical assistant.
digital
▪ Of course the other important contributing factor to the success of the personal digital assistant will be software.
▪ I expect these so-called personal digital assistants to dribble slowly out this year.
editorial
▪ She was previously editorial and production assistant at Product Communication, in London.
▪ And Rosemary Carey, an editorial assistant at the journal since 1984, said she had never heard of Yaki.
▪ All the editorial assistants except Hannah, who's on holiday, and all the production staff.
executive
▪ I had worked for many years as an administrative assistant and an executive assistant.
▪ His second choice, they said, is his executive assistant, William Keefer.
▪ Five days later, Lee, who was by then an executive assistant, was fired.
▪ Brown hired longtime aide Eleanor Johns as executive assistant to the mayor, and named campaign scheduler Whitney Schwartz as appointments secretary.
▪ My first executive assistant was Hu Tsang, a thirty-three year-old graduate of the Kennedy School.
legislative
▪ A lawyer, Alexander went to Washington as legislative assistant to Sen.
▪ Later, Albright worked as a legislative assistant to the late Democratic Sen.
▪ A former legislative assistant to North Carolina Sen.
▪ He omitted it on applications to be a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill.
▪ To his surprise, Alexander recalled, Baker won and tapped him to go to Washington to work as his legislative assistant.
personal
▪ Other senior men took their personal assistants with them when changing jobs.
▪ For your personal assistant, I guess.
▪ He arrives driving a golf cart with two personal assistants who will never leave his side.
▪ I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976.
▪ Very soon, she had become a sort of personal assistant, helping him select fabrics, cost dresses and choose accessories.
▪ Please confirm that you are able to make it to my personal assistant.
▪ I expect these so-called personal digital assistants to dribble slowly out this year.
▪ Carolyn became Laura Ashley's personal assistant, a role which necessitated an extremely close relationship.
■ NOUN
production
▪ She was previously editorial and production assistant at Product Communication, in London.
▪ This was no simple production assistant.
research
▪ Expenditure on research assistants might also save a significant degree of time and money in the long run.
▪ Another Volunteer, a biologist, started to work as an informal research assistant, but did not enter the classroom.
▪ One of my research assistants did some investigation.
▪ Checking the nests and weighing the eggs and chicks is a daily task for Spendelow and his five research assistants.
▪ He had married Judith Hall, a parliamentary research assistant, five years earlier.
▪ There are interviewers, data analysis experts, and research assistants to be employed by the project.
▪ Huge Government grant. Research assistants.
shop
▪ Fighting back: Shop assistant tackles an armed robber.
▪ Schoolchildren flock to the malls and fast-food joints, looking for jobs as shop assistants and chefs.
▪ She found she was short-tempered with shop assistants, angry if something she had ordered failed to arrive on the appointed date.
▪ Communication skills affect every area of life, from expressing feelings in intimate relationships to dealing with over-zealous shop assistants.
▪ I called over the smart and snooty shop assistant to ask why such a pricey outfit sported such ` crinkles'.
▪ The shop assistant laughed with him and gave him his money back.
▪ She remembered his tetchiness with shop assistants, which presumably had been simulated.
ucla
▪ One of the UCLA assistant coaches saunters up to the Ducks' bench.
welfare
▪ Returns were received from 100 welfare assistants working with 98 children in 72 schools.
▪ Approximately half of the assistants also wished to attend an induction course on the general role of a welfare assistant.
▪ Approximately half had organised or helped with playgroups and a similar number had previously worked as welfare assistants.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sales assistant
▪ Hughes, who was Mott's assistant, will now become head coach.
▪ Lydia is the assistant to the Director of Finance.
▪ The dentist had her assistant sterilise the instruments.
▪ Winston got a job as assistant manager at Wal-Mart.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everybody had personal assistants whether they needed them or not.
▪ Five days later, Lee, who was by then an executive assistant, was fired.
▪ He and his assistants hung around shopping malls and city streets, eavesdropping on whoops and hoots.
▪ He implies that pay and conditions for personal assistants rely on the exploitation of staff for their cost-effectiveness.
▪ In fact, the access badge given to Lakers public-relations assistant Raymond Ridder features a Clippers logo.
▪ Other senior men took their personal assistants with them when changing jobs.
▪ The assistant put them in a paper bag and Tom handed them to him.
▪ The goal of these assistants is to become something like the office computer guru.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assistant

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.
    --Pope.

    Rhymes merely as assistants to memory.
    --Mrs. Chapone.

  2. An attendant; one who is present.
    --Dryden.

Assistant

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.
    --Beattie.

  2. (Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]

    Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff.
    --Farrow.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
assistant

mid-15c., assistent "one who helps or aids another," from Middle French assistent, adjective and noun, properly present participle of assister (see assist (v.)).

assistant

mid-15c., "helpful, of assistance," from Middle French assistent (see assistant (n.)).

Wiktionary
assistant

a. 1 Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. 2 Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. n. 1 (context obsolete English) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness. 2 A person who assists or helps someone else. 3 (context British English) sales assistant. 4 A software tool that provides assistance in some task.

WordNet
assistant

adj. of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another [syn: adjunct]

assistant

n. 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" [syn: helper, help, supporter]

Wikipedia
Assistant

Assistant may refer to:

  • Assistant (by Speaktoit), a virtual assistant app for smartphones
  • Assistant (software), a software tool to assist in computer configuration
  • Assistant (Google), an upcoming virtual assistant by Google
  • The Assistant (TV series), an MTV reality show
  • ST Assistant, a British tugboat
Assistant (by Speaktoit)

Assistant is an intelligent personal assistant application for mobile devices developed by Speaktoit. Originally launched in October 2011 for the Android platform (although available in beta in March 2011), Assistant has since come to iOS and Windows Phones. Assistant uses natural language understanding and voice recognition to interact with its users and is capable of having clarifying conversations. Unlike Apple's Siri, Assistant comes in the form of a customizable, cartoonish avatar.

Assistant has over 13+ million users in 11 different languages as of October 2014. They are currently the No. 6 top grossing app in the Lifestyle category on Google Play in the US.

The New York Times recognized Assistant as one of the top 10 Android Apps of 2011.

Usage examples of "assistant".

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His earnest brown eyes seemed to reflect her pain as she and her husband passed on, to her young adviser Saric, and his assistant, Incomo.

Monday As I prepared to host the bioterrorism roundtable in Nashville, a Florida man already had died of inhalational anthrax, and an assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw had been diagnosed with skin, or cutaneous, anthrax.

White and his able young assistant surgeons had found antiscorbutic herbs and fruits growing wild, to which all but the most obstinate cases eventually yielded, and these were now being grown in the hospital garden.

Benno Cohen of the ZVfD had been appointed assistant to their director, conductor Kurt Singer, but that was not enough: the performers were still really cultural assimilationists, and in October 1935 Kareski, who had nothing to do with the arts, was appointed to a more senior position than Singer, and Cohen was dismissed.

Will Gately was United States Assistant Secretary of Defence for Astronautics, and a former astronaut.

Lewis found their level of paranoia encouraging, and had actually started to relax a little when a shop assistant suddenly ran forward out of nowhere with an autograph pad in his hand that for one heart-stopping moment looked very like a bomb.

All of the negotiations were done in my persona of a print shop assistant commissioned by the fictitious autor of the play.

Ahf Noot and four of his assistants entered the first section of the operating theatre and remained there several hours where they were subjected to waves of bactericides and air saturated with antiseptic emanations until their very breath became sterilized.

Maud, however, without a hat of any sort, her long, luxuriant, silken, golden tresses covering her shoulders, and occasionally veiling her warm, rich cheek, was exercising with a battledore, keeping Little Smash, now increased in size to quite fourteen stone, rather actively employed as an assistant, whenever the exuberance of her own spirits caused her to throw the plaything beyond her reach.

Colonel Louis Johnson, the rather bellicose former Assistant Secretary of War whom Roosevelt had despatched as his special envoy to India, gained the same impression.

The last act before the curtain call by all the performers was a magician, a magnificent magician with two bespangled women assistants whom he kept making disappear and reappear in various sections of the audience, high above on a rafter, or inside one of the four locked boxes on a raised platform.

Lansing, the assistant brewmaster, was among the last to arrive, heavily bundled in cap, bandanna, and peacoat.

There were construction workers and a second-form teacher, an assistant brewmaster and a tour guide.

Assistant Curator, Gordon Pringle, watches the flames licking around the brutalist concrete terraces of the South Bank Arts Centre opposite and tells himself grimly, better them than us.