assistant

assistant
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noun
ADJECTIVE
chief, senior
deputy
personal

I'll ask my personal assistant to deal with this.

special
administrative, care (esp. BrE), catering (BrE), checkout (BrE), clerical (esp. BrE), executive (esp. AmE), graduate (esp. AmE), laboratory, library, physician (AmE), production, research, sales (BrE), shop (BrE), teaching, technical

patient care assistants

She took up a post as research assistant in the Department of Pharmacology.

VERB + ASSISTANT
employ (sb as), have

She had an assistant to do her paperwork.

get, hire (sb as) (esp. AmE), recruit (sb as)

I'm getting a new assistant next month.

fire (esp. AmE), sack (esp. BrE)
PREPOSITION
assistant to

She is assistant to the Production Manager.

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adj.
Assistant is used with these nouns: ↑attorney, ↑bishop, ↑clerk, ↑coach, ↑commissioner, ↑counsel, ↑director, ↑editor, ↑gardener, ↑head, ↑lecturer, ↑librarian, ↑manager, ↑principal, ↑producer, ↑professor, ↑referee, ↑secretary, ↑trainer, ↑treasurer, ↑tutor

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