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Answer for the clue "Someone who acts as assistant ", 9 letters:
auxiliary

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Word definitions for auxiliary in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Auxiliary may refer to: A backup site or system

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an auxiliary verb (= a verb that is used with another verb to show its tense, person, etc. In English these are 'be', 'do', and 'have' ) auxiliary verb modal auxiliary COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN nurse ▪ ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 helping; give assistance or support. 2 supplementary or subsidiary. 3 held in reserve for exceptional circumstances. 4 (context nautical English) Of a ship, having both sails and an engine. 5 (context grammar English) Relating to an auxiliary ver n. 1 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who acts as assistant [syn: aide ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin auxiliaris "helpful," from auxilium "aid, help, support," related to auctus , past participle of augere "to increase" (see augment ).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\, n.; pl. Auxiliaries . A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. (Gram.) A verb ...

Usage examples of auxiliary.

Games were also to go to the lower level and take the aft end including the auxiliary machinery room, then cover Pig and Python.

A hundred feet aft, the outer door of the signal ejector opened, and twenty seconds later a solenoid valve in a branch pipe from the auxiliary seawater system popped open, sending high-pressure seawater into the bottom of the signal ejector tube that pushed out the radio buoy.

To which of the stages of language does this belong--the agglutinative, in which one root is fastened on to another, and a word is formed in which the constitutive elements are obviously distinct, or the inflexional, where the auxiliary roots get worn down and are only distinguishable by the philologist?

Once they had arrived at the auxiliary airlock, Akers unwittingly made a miscalculation: He allowed Sasaki and Nash to enter the airlock by themselves, leaving him outside with Kawakami and Verduin.

Junior League, an active Kappa alumna, something in the hospital auxiliary, and something else at the country club.

A hundred mounted arquebusiers brought up the rear, followed by a hundred horse-archer auxiliaries.

A quicker method, Lacy told Bucher, would be to open the cooling water intakes and outlets in the main engine room and cut a hole into the auxiliary engine room from the main engine room.

Kerckhoffs accurately regarded it as an auxiliary to cryptography, a means to the end of perfecting military codes and ciphers.

The duke of Argyle endeavoured to demonstrate the danger of depending for the safety of the kingdom upon an undisciplined militia, a fleet, or an army of auxiliaries.

Somehow, he caught an image of Sura Noviwho was not a Speaker, not even a Second Foundationer, not even educated grimly at his side, playing a vital auxiliary role in the drama that was coming.

The air inside the cockpit was starting to warm up from our combined body heat, and a huffer was standing by in case we needed its auxiliary compressed air to get a clean start on the engine.

Keeping in view the transformable nature of force, and the need that our systems have of auxiliary power in different departments, when normal activity is impaired by disease, we can readily understand how undoubted, curative effects result from either the manual or the mechanical administration of motion.

I must report that Admiral Iota has barricaded himself in Auxiliary Control and now holds weaponry, helm and navigational systems.

Admiral Iota has seized auxiliary control and opened fire on the enemy.

Fortunately for the rebel column and its American auxiliaries, the Intruders had dumped their load on the vehicles, which had been standing empty along the Kerch Road, on the west side of the ridge.