Word Finder - assistant

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Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.

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A person who assists or helps someone else.

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Sales assistant.

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A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

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• wizard

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Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

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an assistant surgeon

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Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

The assistant asked some further questions.

She couldn't be late again for her job as an assistant general manager of a fast food joint, or she'd be fired.

The photographer issued them a few directions, with his assistant helping them pose.

Ingrid, come here, he ordered his assistant silently.

Jessi and Gerry stopped to watch as Laurencio's assistant set up a tripod.

An elegantly dressed man in his sixties identified as Assistant Director Carlton Summerfield had taken charge.

An assistant District Attorney had called about prosecuting a felony drug possession, but the second note was upsetting.

She snapped the markers indicating her rank—Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of the Domestic Security Service.

She slung the markers designating her as the Undersecretary's assistant against the wall then crushed them with the heel of her boot.

The sense he knew she wasn't the right assistant made her frown.

With the former Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and the Special Assistant to the VP, not to mention the biofields, electromagnetic fields, and other beefed security measures, the compound at the top of the mountain was a fortress commanded by the President's own right-hand man.

The assistant left, and Xander replaced him.

He took part in the excavations at Olympia in 1878, became an assistant in the Berlin Museum in 1880, and professor at Berlin (1884) and later at Munich.

She wanted to commiserate with the horse's assistant, who seemed as awkward in his role as Jessi felt in hers.

Your role will involve assistant management insolvency at administration level.

She pulled it on with a dirty look at her assistant.

Tell your assistant to come down for a shot.

Soon after this he got an appointment at Riga, as assistant master at the cathedral school, and a few years later, became assistant pastor.

After acting for a short time as assistant in Harvard College Observatory, he was appointed assistant professor of mathematics in the U.S. Naval Academy in 1866, and in the following year became director of the Allegheny Observatory at Pittsburg, a position which he held until his selection in 1887 as secretary of the Smithsonian.

The Assistant Referee or club linesman must then redirect their flag signal immediately to correspond to the direction given by the Referee.

In 1808 he was consecrated assistant and successor to the bishop of Brechin, in 1810 was preferred to the sole charge, and in 1816 was elected primus of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, in which capacity he greatly aided in the introduction of many useful reforms, in fostering a more catholic and tolerant spirit, and in cementing a firm alliance with the sister church of England.

But, though his duties were primarily financial, the quaestor was after all the chief assistant or adjutant of his superior in command, and as such he was invested with a certain degree of military power; under the republic his military rank was superior to that of the legates, though under the empire this relation was reversed.

On the 6th of July 1653 he took the degree of B.D., and became a tutor and chaplain of Corpus Christi, preferring this to a fellowship. In 1654 he had offers of high preferment in the state, which he declined; but in 1655 George Newton, of the great church of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, sought him for assistant and Alleine accepted the invitation.

The work was so far advanced that his pupil and assistant Felix Klein was able to complete and publish it (see Geometry, Line).

Responsible to the governors are the sheriffs (syslumenn), who act as tax gatherers, notaries public and judges of first instance; the sheriff has in every hreppur an assistant, called hreppstjOri.

The doctor was followed by a Russian assistant.

Rostov and the assistant went into the dark corridor.

In 1952 I came to Rhode Island., U.S.A., where I worked as an assistant rabbi in a synagogue.

The pensionable scale of stipends for an Assistant Keeper is £ 17,238 a year, rising by six annual increments to £ 22,579.

Frank 's feathers are ruffled when he loses, but he falls for Annie and she is offered a job as his assistant.

You may already be in an assistant managerial position or be a senior salesperson with the ability and desire to move on.

Fanatical field assistant attempts to smoke portion of dried scat sample and unwittingly ignites canvas tent, destroying hair samples.

Stockroom assistant Sylvia Ruston said the mischievous ghost had been particularly active in the last few weeks, revealing itself more than ever before.

The assistant superintendent said the driver did n't notice anything out of the ordinary before the lift overturned.

Have the suture held by the first assistant using vascular dissecting forceps.

Some Health Boards have speech and language therapy assistant who are excellent at making symbol resources in BoardMaker.

Joshua 12.9 Back to top Jerimoth was an assistant of Conaniah; overseer of the tithing organized by Hezekiah, according to the Chronicler.

He became the Acting assistant Treasurer of the United States at the Sub Treasury in Wall Street.

A scientist 's assistant attempts to unmask a sinister villain named The Recorder who can control an electronic flying disk.

Margaret Thatcher 's assistant, Robin Harris, is strangely unwilling to express a view on the Croatian situation.

Phillips left the Vetch in similar circumstances and joined ex-Swans assistant manager Peter Nicholas at Newport.

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The assistant offered them a list of ' products ' that would help them eradicate the weed !

The mayor becked his hand to tell his assistant to leave.

The new assistant was eager to help and, moreover, he was a fast learner.

The photographer's assistant set up the mirrors to deflect the light to the right location.

Otherwise, you will need a tape measure and an assistant to help you determine the width, height and depth of the location.

The cup size is a little more complicated and you should ask the store assistant to determine your standard cup size.

Ask the store assistant to measure both of your feet and choose shoes that feel comfortable on the larger foot.

As some of you know, I have my wonderful assistant Ruthie, and she always has great cat information for me since she has fifteen cats on her eight-acre farm.