Another word for assistant
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Noun
A person who holds a position auxiliary to another and assumes some of the superior's responsibilities
- A unit of time equal to one sixtieth of a minute.
- The time needed for a cesium-133 atom to perform 9,192,631,770 complete oscillations.
- A brief interval of time; a moment.
- A commissioned rank in the US Navy or Coast Guard that is above lieutenant junior grade and below lieutenant commander.
- A first lieutenant.
- A second lieutenant.
- a person or thing that helps; esp., an assisting worker who is more or less unskilled
- A person appointed or empowered to act for another.
- An assistant exercising full authority in the absence of his or her superior and equal authority in emergencies:
- A representative in a legislative body in certain countries.
- A coworker; an assistant.
- A subordinate bishop designated as an assistant and usually as a successor to the bishop of a given diocese.
- A helper; an assistant.
- Giving assistance or support; helping.
- Acting as a subsidiary; supplementary:
- Held in or used as a reserve:
- An assistant; a helper:
- An aide-de-camp.
- A staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs.
- An assistant.
- Either of two large Asian storks (Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus) having a head and neck bare of feathers, black wings, and white underparts.
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Adjective
Giving or able to give help or support
- Furnishing support or assistance.
- Serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary.
- Secondary in importance; subordinate.
- Of, relating to, or of the nature of a subsidy.
- Of, relating to, or involving contribution.
- Helping to bring about a result.
- Subject to an impost or levy.
- Situated or running side by side; parallel.
- Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying.
- Serving to support or corroborate:
- Giving assistance or support; helping.
- Acting as a subsidiary; supplementary:
- Held in or used as a reserve:
- Of secondary importance; subordinate:
- Auxiliary or accessory:
- Something that is subordinate or accessory to something else:
- A subordinate or supplementary item; an adjunct.
- Something nonessential but desirable that contributes to an effect or result.
- One who knowingly assists a lawbreaker in the commission of a crime but does not actually participate in that crime.
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Another word for assistant
Noun
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- An employee who runs errands in addition to performing regular duties.
- The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedian; a straight man.
- One who allows oneself to be used for another's profit or advantage; a puppet.
- A stool pigeon.
- One who tends to agree uncritically with others, especially with people in superior positions.
- A close companion or comrade.
- A person of slavish or unquestioning obedience; a lackey.
- One who does menial or trivial work; a drudge.
- A liveried manservant.
- A liveried male servant; a footman.
- A servile follower; a toady.
- To wait on as a footman; attend.
- One of lesser rank or authority than another; a subordinate.
- A girl Friday.
- An efficient, faithful male aide or employee.
- A trusted assistant (male)
- Of, relating to, or located on the right.
- Relating to, designed for, or done with the right hand.
- Most helpful or reliable:
- A unit of time equal to one sixtieth of a minute.
- The time needed for a cesium-133 atom to perform 9,192,631,770 complete oscillations.
- A brief interval of time; a moment.
- One who participates in the commission of a crime without being the principal actor.
- One who attends or waits on another.
- One who is present.
- An accompanying thing or circumstance; a concomitant.
- A coworker; an assistant.
- A subordinate bishop designated as an assistant and usually as a successor to the bishop of a given diocese.
- Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.
- Subject to the authority or control of another.
- One that is subordinate.
- A staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs.
- An assistant.
- Either of two large Asian storks (Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus) having a head and neck bare of feathers, black wings, and white underparts.
- A helper and companion, especially a spouse.
- One of a matched pair:
- A spouse or romantic partner.
- Either of a pair of birds or other animals that associate in order to propagate.
- A person who is lower in position or rank; a subordinate.
- A person who is marginalized and oppressed by the dominant culture, especially in a colonial context.
- Such people considered as a group.
- A member of a confederacy; an ally.
- One who assists in a plot; an accomplice.
- A supporter of the Confederate States of America.
- a person who collaborates
- Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position.
- A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity.
- A clause or phrase added to a sentence that, while not essential to the sentence's structure, amplifies its meaning, such as for several hours in We waited for several hours.
- A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.
- A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district.
- A law clerk, as for a judge.
- A subordinate or supplementary item; an adjunct.
- Something nonessential but desirable that contributes to an effect or result.
- One who knowingly assists a lawbreaker in the commission of a crime but does not actually participate in that crime.
- To place in a friendly association, as by treaty:
- To unite or connect in a personal relationship, as in friendship or marriage.
- To enter into an alliance:
- A military officer acting as secretary and confidential assistant to a superior officer of general or flag rank.
- A person or group of persons, usually armed, responsible for the safety of one or more other persons.
- One that backs a person, group, or enterprise:
- One who bets on a contestant.
- One who provides or works with backs or backing.
- One that supports, protects, or champions someone or something, such as an institution, event, or cause; a sponsor or benefactor:
- A customer, especially a regular customer.
- The owner or manager of an establishment, especially a restaurant or an inn of France or Spain.
- (idiomatic) Any assistance, help or aid.
- One that can always be relied on, as in an emergency.
- One kept in readiness to serve as a substitute.
- A mode of operation for a computer, television, or other electronic device in which the power is on and the device is ready for immediate use.
- Of secondary importance; subordinate:
- Auxiliary or accessory:
- Something that is subordinate or accessory to something else:
- One who is appointed, as to an office or position.
- One to whom a power of appointment of property is granted.
- One that supports, as a structural member of a building.
- One who promotes or advocates; an adherent:
- An athletic supporter.
- A person employed to handle correspondence, keep files, and do clerical work for another person or an organization.
- An officer who keeps records, takes minutes of the meetings, and answers correspondence, as for a company.
- An official who presides over an administrative department of state.
- a person with whom one works in the same workplace
- One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.
- One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.
- A beginner; a learner.
- Somebody ranking next below a commander.
- Someone ranking next below the person in charge.
- Alternative spelling of second-in-command.
- One that serves as an example or type for others of the same classification.
- One that serves as a delegate or agent for another.
- A member of a governmental body, usually legislative, chosen by popular vote.
- A person who assists the celebrant in the performance of liturgical rites.
- A devoted follower or attendant.
- a person or thing that helps; esp., an assisting worker who is more or less unskilled
- A member of a business partnership.
- A spouse.
- A domestic partner.
- A fellow member of a profession, staff, or academic faculty; an associate.
- A person who accompanies or associates with another; a comrade.
- A domestic partner.
- A person employed to assist, live with, or travel with another.
- To connect in the mind or imagination:
- To connect or involve with a cause, group, or partner:
- To correlate or connect logically or causally:
- A commissioned rank in the US Navy or Coast Guard that is above lieutenant junior grade and below lieutenant commander.
- A first lieutenant.
- A second lieutenant.
- Giving assistance or support; helping.
- Acting as a subsidiary; supplementary:
- Held in or used as a reserve:
- A supporter, as of a cause or individual:
- Sticking or holding fast.
- Joined but not united. Used of dissimilar parts or organs.
- One who accepts the guidance, command, or leadership of another:
- One who has a strong interest or pays close attention to something:
- A machine element moved by another machine element.
- A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
- A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
- A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
- A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate.
- A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests.
- A member of a criminal gang.
- A person appointed or empowered to act for another.
- An assistant exercising full authority in the absence of his or her superior and equal authority in emergencies:
- A representative in a legislative body in certain countries.
- An assistant; a helper:
- An aide-de-camp.
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