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ASSISTANT

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ASSISTANTa.
Websters Unabridged Dictionary (1913) • 1913
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie. Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]
ASSISTANTn.
Websters Unabridged Dictionary (1913) • 1913
One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone. An attendant; one who is present. Dryden.
assistantadj
Wiktionary (English) • 2026
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Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. | Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
assistantnoun
Wiktionary (English) • 2026
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Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness. | A person who assists or helps someone else. | Sales assistant. | A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

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