assistant

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 20.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

   an assistant surgeon

2. adjective Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
3. noun Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
4. noun A person who assists or helps someone else.
5. noun Sales assistant.
6. noun A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

Similar words

supporter helper help subordinate adjunct low-level aide sidekick agent second-in-command

Often followed by

secretary to professor director in and commissioner editor chief

Word family

assist assistance assistants assisted assisting assists