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assistant

/əˈsɪstənt/ noun B1
  1. A person who assists or helps someone else.
  2. A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

Plural assistants

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Scarcely had he entered the hall when he glanced at the whole body of magistrates and assistants; his eye rested longer on the president, and still more so on the king’s attorney.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1053 · C1
de Villefort, the assistant procureur, he overtook his supercargo and Caderousse.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 37 · C1
Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 1 · B2
I used to be able to keep two assistants, but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the business.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 6 · B2

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