"assistant" | Definition and Related Words

assistant

Noun

A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose (synset 109835195)
"my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

is a type of: worker - a person who works at a specific occupation
subtypes:
- coadjutor - an assistant to a bishop
- accomplice, confederate - a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
- aide, auxiliary - someone who acts as assistant
- attendant, attender, tender - someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- bat boy - (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment
- dental assistant - an assistant to a dentist
- deputy, lieutenant - an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent
- actor's assistant, dresser - a wardrobe assistant for an actor
- event planner - someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials)
- facilitator - someone who makes progress easier
- flower girl - a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession
- girl friday - a female assistant who has a range of duties
- enforcer, hatchet man - one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior
- cat's-paw, instrument, pawn - a person used by another to gain an end
- birthing coach, doula, labor coach, monitrice - an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes
- underboss - an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate)
- fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model - a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- model, poser - a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- paraprofessional - a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional
- powder monkey - someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)
- prompter, theater prompter - someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech
- chief assistant, man friday, right-hand man - the most helpful assistant
- secretarial assistant, secretary - an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization
- sidesman - (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church
- foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary, underling - an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
- water boy, waterer - an assistant who supplies drinking water
- whipper-in - huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds
same as: help, helper, supporter

Adjective

Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another (synset 300796805)
similar to: low-level, subordinate - lower in rank or importance

same as: adjunct

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