assistant
Other forms: assistants
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.
The word assistant typically refers to someone who offers assistance. However, in certain professional situations, assistant can mean on a level below, as in "the Assistant District Attorney reports to the District Attorney." Not surprisingly, an assistant provides assistance. However, unlike a slave or an indentured servant, an assistant is paid for his work.
Definitions of assistant
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a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose“my invaluable assistant”types:coadjutoran assistant to a bishopaccomplice, confederatea person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)bat boy(baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipmentdental assistantan assistant to a dentistevent plannersomeone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials)facilitatorsomeone who makes progress easierflower girla young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) processiongirl Fridaya female assistant who has a range of dutiesbirthing coach, doula, labor coach, monitricean assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classesunderbossan assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate)fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, modela woman who wears clothes to display fashionsparaprofessionala trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professionalpowder monkeysomeone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)prompter, theater promptersomeone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speechsecretarial assistant, secretaryan assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organizationsidesman(Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the churchfoot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary, underlingan assistant subject to the authority or control of anotherwhipper-inhuntsman's assistant in managing the houndscompanionone paid to accompany or assist or live with anotherassociatea person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprisebaggagemanan attendant who takes care of baggagebatmanan orderly assigned to serve a British military officerbottom doga person of low statuscheckeran attendant who checks coats or baggagecoga subordinate who performs an important but routine functioncourtieran attendant at the court of a sovereigncupbearerthe attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of winedressmaker's modelsomeone who models dressesequerrya personal attendant of the British royal familyescortan attendant who is employed to accompany someoneesquire(Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthoodexecutive secretarya secretary having administrative duties and responsibilitiesfamulusa close attendant (as to a scholar)gilliea young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chiefgroomsmana male attendant of the bridegroom at a weddingloaderan attendant who loads guns for someone shooting gamemana male subordinatematron of honora married woman serving as the attendant to the bride at a weddinghospital attendant, orderlya hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patientsorderlya soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officerpage, varletin medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthoodpagea youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddingsparamedic, paramedicala person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatmentphotographer's modela model who poses for photographersrackeran attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rackreceptionista secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitorsrockeran attendant who rocks a child in a cradlesecondthe official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing matchsecond-in-commandsomeone who relieves a commanderservitorsomeone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone elsesocial secretarya personal secretary who handles your social correspondence and appointmentssquirea young nobleman attendant on a knightamanuensis, shorthand typist, stenographersomeone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)supermodela fashion model who has attained the status of a celebritytrainbearerone who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasionvicar-general(Roman Catholic Church) an administrative deputy who assists a bishopvice-regenta regent's deputyvaletsomeone employed to park and retrieve carstype of:workera person who works at a specific occupation
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of or relating to a person who is subordinate to anothersynonyms: adjunct
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ant, -ent
This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that means "an action; condition; causing a specific action."