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assistant
noun as in helper
Strongest matches
aide, apprentice, associate, attendant, backup, colleague, companion, deputy, friend, partner, representative, secretary
Strong matches
abettor, accessory, accomplice, adherent, adjunct, ally, appointee, auxiliary, backer, coadjutor, collaborator, confederate, cooperator, flunky, follower, gofer, help, helpmate, mate, patron, peon, subordinate, supporter, temp
Weak matches
coadjutant, fellow worker, right-hand person, squire, temporary worker
Example Sentences
She started a monthlong substitute-teaching assignment on Nov. 4 and said she was outraged to receive a call from an assistant superintendent on Wednesday dismissing her.
With his Buddy Holly glasses, scruffy boho beard, floppy hair and turtleneck sweater, Adams — who is called the Big Lad — is lazily charismatic, with the precociously paternal air of a cool, or seemingly cool, assistant professor — he calls Dolours, who in real life was only two years younger, “child.”
The game against the Lakers on Friday will be the eighth in which assistant coach Mitch Johnson will be filling in while Popovich recovers.
Popovich was an assistant coach when a 19-year-old James was a player on the U.S. men’s basketball team that won bronze at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
She was later asked by him to go to Monaco to work as a personal assistant for his younger brother, Salah, but on her arrival, she found there was very little work to do.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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