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assistant English

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assistant

An assistant is a person who helps (or assists) another person. The doctor's assistant held his tools.

assistant

If you are assistant, you have a position under someone. The assistant guard was in training to become a full guard.

assistant

(= help) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose my invaluable assistant they hired additional help to finish the work (= adjunct) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

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Simple sentences

His present assistant is Miss Nokami.
Tom doesn't have an assistant.
Tom scolded a shop assistant for her slow service.
Tom's younger sister is a shop assistant.
The young man whom I employed as my assistant works very hard.
I am looking for an assistant.
We want an assistant, preferably someone with experience.
My wife's hands are slightly smaller than the shop assistant's.
He made me his assistant.
He placed great belief in his assistant.
Tom employed Mary to be his assistant.
Contact my assistant if you have any questions.
The doctor performing the operation seemed to be concentrating more on his conversation with his assistant than on the operation he was performing. Tom has suffered from the consequences to this day.
I'm Tom's assistant.
The assistant took the money.
My sister works as an assistant to a college professor.
We employed her as an assistant.
He is an archeologist's assistant.
She works as an assistant to the manager.
He told his assistant that he would win.
I need an assistant who speaks Korean.
Where's Tom's assistant?

Movie subtitles

Hi, Karen, the case assistant.
I don't have an assistant.
Just promise me you won't let that shop assistant in here.
Go tell Lauren I pushed her assistant.
And I can't afford to take the assistant job.
While I know that being your assistant is an incredible opportunity, I feel like I bring something really special to the table.
Sutton, I'm sure you understand that every penny I pour into my assistant's salary is a penny less I have to spend on the image, which is what sells this magazine.
His assistant: Gillette.
Assistant bookkeeper, Room 23, Building C, third floor.
Your assistant, who went insane and died, as you might have done if you'd seen what he saw, made a transcription of part of that scroll.
Yes, Inspector. It was like this, Mr. Assistant Inspector.
Where is that loafer, Roger Bond, and his assistant loafer, Fred Ayres?
I understand you have another assistant besides Dr Kemp, a Dr Griffin.
They don't know downstairs yet that you've soured on your assistant.
And he had one big advantage: he was an assistant at the Observatory.
Following that, a diction professor for 1 month, and, temporarily, assistant stage manager at the Folies Montmartre.
If that's on the level, there goes my assistant cashier's job.
Starting tomorrow, you become assistant cashier.
First I trample on the board of directors, then I promote Matt to assistant cashier, and to complete the day, I've a visit from my sweet, lovely, gorgeous wife.
We think of such characterisations as the crazed Renfield in Dracula, as the hunchback Fritz, Frankenstein's loony assistant in the 1931 Frankenstein and a similar role in Bride of Frankenstein.
New approaches included a treatment by Richard Schayer, which has a scientist render his mutilated assistant invisible and later stand trial for a murder committed by the assistant.
Preston Sturges contributed a script that had a doctor treating his maniacal assistant with an invisibility drug, following which the two journey to Russia to avenge the killing of the scientist's relatives during the revolution.
I thought we might need another assistant.
A court order for debt. I'm the Assistant Officer to the Sheriff of Middlesex.
I'm the engineer's assistant.
For Julie, my assistant, partner and dear friend. Perhaps someday she will be something more.
Professor Henri Buoyan, Second Assistant of the Bureau of Awards and Merits.
Colonel Rochefort. Assistant Commissioners of Scholastic Awards and Merits.
You know, really, you are an invaluable assistant.
One of the department heads wants Whitey for an assistant, and I wouldn't let her go.
You're a good assistant.
You're not only my patient, you're my favorite assistant now.
Yes, I'm a swell assistant.
If I could keep it, you'd be entitled to your cut as my assistant.
This is Assistant District Attorney Edwards.
Out there's a flock of policemen and assistant DAs running around with their noses to the ground.
My guess might be excellent or crummy but Mrs. Spade didn't raise children dippy enough to guess in front of a DA, an assistant DA and a stenographer.

News and current affairs

To put it bluntly, given the World Bank's importance, consideration of either putative US candidate, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz or former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carleton Fiorina, have been highly controversial around the world.
I remember my surprise when, as a young assistant professor, I realized that I was opposed to the Maastricht Treaty.
In 2000, Stewart Mayhew, Assistant Chief Economist at the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Economic Analysis, surveyed the extensive literature on this topic.
Just before the naval skirmish broke out, the Bush administration sent Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly to Pyongyang to probe North Korea on missile and nuclear weapon proliferation and conventional forces.
John J. Armstrong, now the assistant director of operations for US prisons in Iraq, resigned from his previous post when he was named in two wrongful death lawsuits at one of those prisons.
The first stop was the European Union in the late 1980's, where two French Socialists - Jacques Delors and Pascal Lamy (the president of the European Commission and his assistant, respectively) - led the way.
Bernal moved back to Cambridge as a lecturer in structural crystallography in 1927, and in 1931 was promoted to assistant director of research in crystallography, by then a sub-department of the Cavendish Laboratory.
Between 1993 and 1996, Annan was Assistant Secretary-General for UN Peacekeeping Operations and then Under-Secretary-General.
Soon, the assistant reappeared, panting, to report that the Fertility car was unavailable.
The country is now riveted on the fate of ordinary citizens like sales assistant Lina Joy and former religious teacher Kamariah Ali, who are trying to change their religious affiliation through the legal system.
The result was the Mexican peso crisis of later that year (which I, as US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, had to help contain).
American foreign policy in Africa is in the hands of Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer, a former student of Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice.
It is only more recently, under the watch of US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, that the Bush administration's policy toward North Korea has become more pragmatic.
Forty years later, those words on March 22, 1968, by Jean Baudrillard - then an assistant professor at Nanterre University - still sound right.
An editorial assistant at the New York Times, Zhao Jing, writing under the pen name Michael Anti, broke the news on his widely read Chinese-language blog.
The latest entry into the Democratic race, Jim Webb - who has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, and Senator from Virginia - has talent, but lacks steadiness.
A memo recommending these steps was circulated to McNamara, Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, and Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy.

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