- having a rank below that of a senior person and helping them in their work
- the assistant manager/director/commissioner
- She is an assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State University.
- Assistant Chief Constable Owen
- Assistant Attorney General William Weld
- a former assistant Secretary of State
- an assistant coach/editor
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, or from medieval Latin assistent- ‘taking one's stand beside’, from the verb assistere, from ad- ‘to, at’ + sistere ‘take one's stand’.
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