Definition of assistant

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Assistant (a.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon..

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Staffier :: Staff (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper..
Celebrant :: Celebrant (n.) One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants..
Noncombatant :: Noncombatant (n.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy..
Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..
Abet :: Abet (v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense..
Coadjutor :: Coadjutor (n.) One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.
Underhangman :: Underhangman (n.) An assistant or deputy hangman.
Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
Etat Major :: Etat Major () The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers..
Suffraganship :: Suffragan (a.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop..
Undersecretary :: Undersecretary (n.) A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury..
Institutor :: Institutor (n.) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
Adjutrix :: Adjutrix (n.) A female helper or assistant.
Subgranular :: Subgovernor (n.) A subordinate or assistant governor.
Minister :: Minister (n.) A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument..
Lancepesade :: Lancepesade (n.) An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.
Subsidized :: Subsidiary (n.) One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary..
Landreeve :: Landreeve (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward..
Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship..
Bushelman :: Bushelman (n.) A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.
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